** Description changed: - I have an old PC with non-UEFI BIOS (coreboot is also unavailable for my - mainboard, the bios is updated to the latest (2008 year) version) - without GPT support. Some years ago, when support for UEFI and GPT had - been adopted in linux distros, troubles with booting from usb flash - drive started. I tried a lot of tools (Rufus, Unetbootin, pendrivelinux, - dd and startup disk creator), none of them had helped. + I have an old PC with non-UEFI BIOS (Phoenix BIOS 6.00PG, coreboot is + not available for my mainboard, the BIOS is updated to the latest (2008 + year) version) without GPT support. Some years ago, when support for + UEFI and GPT had been adopted in Linux distros, troubles with booting + from USB flash drive started. I tried a lot of tools (Rufus, Unetbootin, + pendrivelinux, dd and startup disk creator), none of them had helped. If I type parted path/to/kubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso and then show and got >Model: (file) >Disk path/to/kubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso: 6083MB >Sector size (logical/physical): 2048B/512B >Partition Table: mac >Disk Flags: >Number Start End Size File system Name Flags > 1 2048B 6143B 4096B Apple > 2 1511MB 1513MB 2425kB EFI (I don't know why it writes 6083MB) fdisk --type=mbr -l ./kubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso gives + >Disk ./kubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso: 1,4 GiB, 1520762880 bytes, 2970240 sectors >Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes >I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes >Disklabel type: dos >Disk identifier: 0x7d4bf71d > >Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type >./kubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso1 * 0 2970239 2970240 1,4G 0 Empty >./kubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso2 2950924 2955659 4736 2,3M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
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