Hi Terry, I've successfully booted Linux media on the same or a very similar Asus Z97 motherboard, so from that point of view, you should be fine to use Linux if that's what you're worried about. I would have been booting off UEFI USB media though, rather than a legacy DVD, so you may want to try a modern Linux distro.
I replied to your original post with some BIOS boot suggestions. Other suggestions: * Have you confirmed that your legacy DVD boots in other PCs? * Have you upgraded the motherboard BIOS to the latest version? -Toby On 30 January 2015 at 10:10, Terry Duell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > I recently posted about my troubles booting from a DVD. > It turns out that my MB bios will only detect UEFI boot structures and any > devices (USB, DVD) with pre UEFI (legacy) boot structure is not > detected...ie. never show up in the boot menu. > I have been trying to get a resolution to this from the MB manufacturer. > To make a long story short, they claim that the MB will boot legacy boot > structures with particular bios settings, which I am using. They also assert > that they do not support linux and the linux driver is the issue, and that I > should install Windows and test if I still have the problem. > It has been my understanding that any OS driver will only come into play > after the bios has detected the boot device and commenced the boot process > by loading the OS/driver/whatnot from the bootable device. > Is the MB manufacturer correct to say that the linux driver is the cause of > the problem? > > Cheers, > -- > Regards, > Terry Duell > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main -- Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart; the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
