On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 10:05 PM Sam Varshavchik <mr...@courier-mta.com> wrote:
> It's something with that particular, older hardware, not the iso file. > > An old memory resurfaced: I dimly recalled having problems with using USB > storage devices on the two USB 3.0 ports on that laptop. This was back in > the days with iffy hardware support on Linux, so it was second nature for > me > to try the third, USB 2.0 port on back of the laptop, and they worked. > > So I tried the Live CD on the USB 2.0 port, and it booted. > > So, it's ten years later and Linux still has occasional hardware issues, > it > seems… Until the graphics card died a year ago, I was using a 2007 desktop. There were a couple times when newer kernels had simple mistakes that broke modules supporting old hardware. Others had already filed bug reports by the time I encountered issues, and fixes were not long in appearing. I recall seeing reports of bugs in early USB3 hardware. Over the years, linux has had workarounds for hardware idiosyncrasies. I think some of those workarounds are being dropped or lost as support for newer hardware is added with new and improved code. You should not be surprised by issues with recent kernels and hardware over a decade old. -- George N. White III
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