On 28 March 2015 at 01:04, Paul Goyette <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, [email protected] wrote: > >> You can always start with the NetBSD-{ver}-amd64-install.img.gz or >> NetBSD-{ver}-amd64-live-sd0root.img.gz image, which boot off USB fine. > > Hmmm, I don't seem to find that file on nyftp's daily builds... > > FWIW, I just tried to boot a cleanly-burned FreeDOS 1.1 install image, and > it fails to boot on the Gateway box, too. It seems that when there is only > one device with a (what the BIOS considers to be) "valid" boot block, you > cannot even use F12 to request the Boot Device Menu; it just boots the only > "valid" device.
> > Also FWIW, this does not seem to be a UEFI machine. The BIOS seems to work > just like all the old BIOSs from before, with text windows and arrow-key > cursor selections - no GUI, no mouse. I've seem UEFI boot machines which do not appear to have anything other than a text BIOS screen, so may be worth double checking for a 'legacy' or similar boot BIOS option...
