Hi Terry, I've successfully booted Linux media on the same or a very similar Asus Z97 motherboard, so from that point of view, you should be fine to use Linux if that's what you're worried about. I would have been booting off UEFI USB media though, rather than a legacy DVD, so you may want to try a modern Linux distro. I replied to your original post with some BIOS boot suggestions. Other suggestions: * Have you confirmed that your legacy DVD boots in other PCs? * Have you upgraded the motherboard BIOS to the latest version? -Toby On 30 January 2015 at 10:10, Terry Duell <tduell@iinet.net.au> wrote:
Hello All, I recently posted about my troubles booting from a DVD. It turns out that my MB bios will only detect UEFI boot structures and any devices (USB, DVD) with pre UEFI (legacy) boot structure is not detected...ie. never show up in the boot menu. I have been trying to get a resolution to this from the MB manufacturer. To make a long story short, they claim that the MB will boot legacy boot structures with particular bios settings, which I am using. They also assert that they do not support linux and the linux driver is the issue, and that I should install Windows and test if I still have the problem. It has been my understanding that any OS driver will only come into play after the bios has detected the boot device and commenced the boot process by loading the OS/driver/whatnot from the bootable device. Is the MB manufacturer correct to say that the linux driver is the cause of the problem?
Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
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