The catch is USB booting

Post #401,603 by scoenye 5/8/15 10:52:17 AM Reply	The catch is USB booting I have not tried this on a recent server, but PCs are getting problematic, even if you exclude the UEFI issue. The PartedMagic Live Linux on a stick was my choice for diagnostic work. That worked well on PCs that are now 5-10 years old but it has become pretty much useless on newer equipment regardless of the OEM. I'm back to using CDs :-/
Post #401,607 by Another Scott 5/8/15 11:06:02 AM Reply	Really? That's weird and unfortunate. I haven't tried it myself. I just recently got a refurbished 13" MBP to upgrade J's old 13" black MacBook. Along the way I saw notice about creating a USB-bootable installer for Yosemite, but my feeble attempts at getting it working weren't sufficient. It turns out I didn't need it (of course, I don't remember the details), but I thought that PCs wouldn't have any issues like that these days. They really are continuing down the road toward making these things unfixable, aren't they? :-/ Cheers, Scott.
Post #401,647 by scoenye 5/9/15 4:44:39 PM Reply	Sadly so I mostly deal with HP and Dell. Dells tend to not recognize the device is bootable (i.e. it shows in the boot menu, but when selected, the PC boots off the HDD anyway). The HPs will kick off the boot process but then fail to launch the kernel proper. Some will boot off a USB CD/DVD drive so it appears to be an issue properly recognizing USB mass storage devices.
Post #401,734 by jake123 5/13/15 7:36:24 AM Reply	FWIW, I installed ubuntu on this 16 month old Samsung laptop using a usb stick. Worked fine. Maybe stay away from US manufacturers?
Post #401,752 by scoenye 5/14/15 7:47:14 AM Reply	You may be on to something there ;-)

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