So I'm trying to boot this old fuck from a pen to install puppy Linux, but I choose this option and it just boots XP normally. What do?
So I'm trying to boot this old fuck from a pen to install puppy Linux...
Colton Russell
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Jayden Howard
Help me g you are my last hope
Josiah Richardson
USB fdd drives are literally just those floppy drives you plug into your computer using USB
seems your bios can't properly boot from usb drives, or that your usb drive is non-bootable ( some shit USB sticks are actually not capable of being booted from b/c of some windows 8 "requirement" )
you are kinda fucked and can only boot from CD rom it seems
Elijah Hughes
Have you tried opening the BIOS and adding the proper USB stick to the boot list? Maybe it's listed there but not enabled. "USB FDD" very likely won't work
Otherwise you might get success by using Rufus and enabling some of the legacy compatibility options
Adam Rogers
I'll try putting puppy on a CD thanks.
Anthony Gutierrez
i mean i would personally just load boot-from-usb drivers to circumvent this
although i've never had to do this, maybe this will work for you
howtogeek.com
Isaac Martinez
The options I found for boot with USB are:
USB fdd
USB cdrom
USB hdd
USB ls120
USB zip/mo
Can I solve it here?
Josiah Brooks
You need the USB HDD one
Kevin Carter
this, usb hdd
John Morgan
No dice still goes to xp
Chase Wright
Computer is too old to boot from usb. Try a CD or try this to enable it: plop.at
Benjamin Powell
Maybe USB boot isn't properly implemented, back then nobody used it
Or maybe your usb stick simply isn't compatible, it does sometimes happen if it's too slow to initialize when the BIOS detects it
USB CDROM and USB zip might be worth a last try, but likely also wont work
You could create a boot floppy like the other user said, but even that isn't guaranteed to work. Just boot from CD
Benjamin Richardson
Some usb drives require you to select the proper partition directly from the boot popup, not by selecting the device in the bios
Carter Perez
Just use the boot screen. It's F11 on my machine.
Did you burn the image with Rufus or equivalent software?
Ryder Roberts
reformat it with a different partitioning scheme, use rufus
Hunter Myers
I don't suppose the bios can be updated?
Ayden Reyes
Your USB drive is usually listed as HDD drive in BIOS. Go in "hard drive boot priorities", and move USB to the top of the list. Alternatively, your mobo might not even support USB booting - use CD.
David Adams
Unetbootin
Owen Sanchez
Use Rufus.
Or dd if you're using Linux.
dd:
sudo dd bs=4M if=/path/to/puppylinux.iso of=/dev/sdx status=progress oflag=sync
Bentley Harris
replace the X in sdx with whatever your usb is.
Jaxson Baker
your USB is not properly formatted as bootable, that's why BIOS is skipping the USB and using the HDD
use rufus, unetbooting or etcher to create a bootable usb with your linux image
Cooper Diaz
It is I tried it on another pc and it works.
Bentley Watson
Had the same problem on a HP Elitebook 2540p.
Never got it to work. Never tried with a CD though. That might work.
Owen Reyes
Make a new 1GB partition on your HDD
Use UNetBootin to flash the iso onto that partition
When asked to boot, boot from that partition
Install puppy and delete the partition afterwards
Jason King
CD solved it now to figure puppy out. Thanks g you really came tru for me
Noah Peterson