On Sun, 10 Dec 2023 at 09:51, Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 06:45 +0000, James Freer wrote: > > > Does your BIOS recognize the flashdrive? > > > > How do i check that? I've forgotten a lot of the commands having been > > ill for a year. Much appreciate the reply. > > Hi, > > first of all I want to second Kaj Haulrich reply. Ventoy is terrific. > You only need to copy an ISO or several ISO to an Ventoy USB stick, > that's all. If you want to, you can even make a live Xubuntu persistent, > that's what I've done. However, even Ventoy has got it's pitfalls. On my > old Intel machine I can use ext4 for the Ventoy USB stick, on my new > Intel machine, I have to stay with the default fat. I know from a power > user, author for Linux magazines, that it does not work at all on some > computers, but even he always recommends Ventoy as the first choice. In > other words, usually Ventoy works without issues and nothing else is > more comfortable than Ventoy. > > I suspect that your BIOS/UEFI whatsoever thingy does recognize the USB > stick, but you need to enable booting from an USB device and/or change > the boot device order. > > After turning on the computer push the F2-key or the Delete-Key again > and again. One of those keys works for almost all computers. Popular > exceptions seem to be the F1-key or the Fn+F2-key, but there are others, > as well. > > What computer or motherboard do you use? > > If you should have a working Linux install on you machine, then run > > sudo dmidecode -t0 -t2 > > and paste the output. On *buntu the name of the package containing this > command is "dmidecode", on Arch Linux it's the same package name, so > other distros probably name it "dmidecode", too. > > Regards, > Ralf
Hi Ralf Thanks very much for that command. Posted below is the output. From what i can deduce this machine is a 2010 which could be 32 bit or 64 bit. Presumably where it says upgradeable - there is a way of doing that. This machine is okay for me as these days i only surf websites, use facebook and gmail - and that's about it. I want to continue using xubuntu but have looked up alternative 32 bit distros if i need too. I do want to get another machine but not at present. # dmidecode 3.1 Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs. SMBIOS 2.5 present. Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes BIOS Information Vendor: American Megatrends Inc. Version: 0506 Release Date: 01/15/2010 Address: 0xF0000 Runtime Size: 64 kB ROM Size: 1024 kB Characteristics: ISA is supported PCI is supported PNP is supported APM is supported BIOS is upgradeable BIOS shadowing is allowed ESCD support is available Boot from CD is supported Selectable boot is supported BIOS ROM is socketed EDD is supported 5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h) 3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h) 3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h) Print screen service is supported (int 5h) 8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h) Serial services are supported (int 14h) Printer services are supported (int 17h) CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h) ACPI is supported USB legacy is supported LS-120 boot is supported ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported BIOS boot specification is supported Targeted content distribution is supported BIOS Revision: 8.12 Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes Base Board Information Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC. Product Name: P5KPL-AM IN/GB Version: X.0x Serial Number: MT7005K17700453 Asset Tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Features: Board is a hosting board Board is replaceable Location In Chassis: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Chassis Handle: 0x0003 Type: Motherboard Contained Object Handles: 0 -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
