I am playing with a couple of older machines at the moment both seem to
have very early and crude UEFI so I am using BIOS/Legacy mode.
Ventoy does not want to boot to a machine in BIOS mode, is there any way
I can persuade it to do that please?
On 15/08/2024 19:55, Jeff Gaines wrote:
I am playing with a couple of older machines at the moment both seem to >>have very early and crude UEFI so I am using BIOS/Legacy mode.
Ventoy does not want to boot to a machine in BIOS mode, is there any way
I can persuade it to do that please?
Is your Ventoy on a CD or DVD or on a USB stick? Some older machines are >unable to boot from USB.
Have you checked the boot order in the BIOS?
If you have other bootable media on the machine, are you given a choice of >which you wish to boot off? If not, temporarily remove the other bootable >media.
If you're using an older DVDrom drive, it may not support all flavours of
+R, -R, -RW, +RW or RAM or the Bios does not support the use of DVD
drives. Try a CD-R and CD drive instead
Ditto older CDrom drives with reegard to all the different colour book >standards.
Some onder machines are unable to support an SSD if that is what you are >using for speed like me.... (either via SATA or a USB to Sata adapter.
If a DVD or CD, have you burned the disc as multisession or as a fully
closed ISO? (the former allows you to add extra files and "delete" files
by removing entries but doesn't release the disc space) while the latter
is burn once, even if there is spare space, you can't burn any more. (some >drives support the latter only rather than both.
On 16/08/2024 in message <v9n2jn$1cbqq$1@dont-email.me> SH wrote:
On 15/08/2024 19:55, Jeff Gaines wrote:
I am playing with a couple of older machines at the moment both seem to >>have very early and crude UEFI so I am using BIOS/Legacy mode.
Ventoy does not want to boot to a machine in BIOS mode, is there any way >>I can persuade it to do that please?
Is your Ventoy on a CD or DVD or on a USB stick? Some older machines are >unable to boot from USB.
It's an SSD in an external USB case, recognised once the machine is set up.
That's a whole different story (see ^ somewhere) but yes, in the BIOS it shows up as first bootable device, but won't boot from it!
If I use my Rufus made Win 10 install thumbdrive (MBR only) I get a
message "Press key to boot from CD/DVD" which works because that's what I used to install it this morning. I do remove other bootable devices and
all other devices except the one I want to install to.
If I use my Rufus made Win 10 install thumbdrive (MBR only) I get a
message "Press key to boot from CD/DVD" which works because that's what I >>used to install it this morning. I do remove other bootable devices and
all other devices except the one I want to install to.
Optical media is generally more reliable on this era of machine.
On 16/08/2024 in message <0al*gq-Rz@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> Theo
wrote:
If I use my Rufus made Win 10 install thumbdrive (MBR only) I get a
message "Press key to boot from CD/DVD" which works because that's
what I
used to install it this morning. I do remove other bootable devices and
all other devices except the one I want to install to.
Optical media is generally more reliable on this era of machine.
The Thumbdrive that works is a Sandisk Cruzer so win win!
Thanks Theo :-)
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