That system predates secure boot. I did look through the bios before doing anything. These days that is one of the first things I looked for. The issue presents itself immediately before post.
Sent from Galaxy S8 Android Jerry Feldman <gaf.li...@gmail.com> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6B B6E7 On Tue, May 1, 2018, 6:17 PM Derek Martin <inva...@pizzashack.org> wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 03:53:21PM +0000, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > I have a guy with an older system > > Core2 duo CPU > > 4GB ddr2 scramble > > > > Dell motherboard > > The problem is when I boot with a known good bootable Linux usb > > Ubuntu, Fedora the system fails to post. > > 1. Dell logo comes up > > 2. Press F12 (boot) or F2 (setup) the light flashes on the usb and the > > system is otherwise frozen. > > 3. Neither the setup nor boot menu come up > > > > However, when I use a bootable gparted USB it comes up fine. When I go to > > the boot menu and select the usb, it boots. > > I'm not sure but I think you may be having trouble with the > combination of UEFI, secure boot, and GPT partitioning (vs. MBR). I > have a vague notion that some combinations of those things don't play > well together, but I can't recall the specifics. > > -- > Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 > -=-=-=-=- > This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will > result in > undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience. > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
