| From: Chris Murphy
| On Aug 31, 2014, at 9:00 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
|
| > I have an oldish PC that only understands booting from 512-byte
| > sectors and then only with MBR disks.
| >
| > I want to install large new disks on it, and no old disks. These
| > don't even pretend to do 5
Flash drives tend to have firmware ahead of the "drive" access and
sometimes that means that they simply will not work as a boot device.
I am having good luck with Kingston DataTraveler G4 series drives. What I
do to load a Linux (Ubuntu 12 and Fedora 20 tried so far) is to first work
with Gparte
On Aug 31, 2014, at 9:00 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> I have an oldish PC that only understands booting from 512-byte
> sectors and then only with MBR disks.
>
> I want to install large new disks on it, and no old disks. These
> don't even pretend to do 512-byte sectors: 4k all the way (3T
I have an oldish PC that only understands booting from 512-byte
sectors and then only with MBR disks.
I want to install large new disks on it, and no old disks. These
don't even pretend to do 512-byte sectors: 4k all the way (3T and 4T sizes
aren't good for MBR either).
I was thinking that I sho
