Thomas Mueller wrote: > from MLH: > > > Scratch the request for usb stick boot. My motherboard doesn't > > appear to allow it. I'll see if I can build a cd that I can boot > > off of and transfer to the hard drive for the system. > > > Thanks anyway > > I thought all modern PC motherboards could boot from USB stick.
This is a Gigabyte from around 2012/2013 IIRC. > What do you see when you reboot and go into the UEFI setup and configuration? UEFI configuration shows only CD/DVD boot and as mentioned before, only implies UEFI hard drive boot. > How are you supposed to install any OS, including MS-Windows, starting from a > blank hard drive? > How are you supposed to recover if something happens and you can't boot from > the hard disk? Boot Options are: Hard Drive, CDROM, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM, USB-HDD, Legacy LAN > Are you not able to boot from any USB port? Apparently not from a memory stick
