10-02-2024, 05:59 PM
(10-02-2024, 02:50 PM)Radio Fixer Wrote: Pic of the Menu. Tried both the first two options (no info suppled on what to do!) and neither worked just bringing up error msgs and going around in a loop with the DVD drive making horrible noises. Could read the files on the DVD, see second pic.
Tried the 3 rd option (OEM) and it booted to the same place that I left off when working from the USB Mem stick. See third pic. Its "superuser" again: is this the same as administrator?
Can anyone comment on these Options and why 3? and which one should be used in different circumstances? If this is too complex than just ignore it... I found one that worked.
Top is the normal one.
Middle is hardly used. You try it if the boot hangs, particularly if a Nvidia graphic card or gpu ins on the PC/laptop. Clue is "Compatibility"
The bottom one (OEM) is for people that make and sell PCs. Don't go there.
I installed a 2016 Acer laptop today. It has nvidia. So I needed to also get boot menu after install (madly hit return or F8, I forget!) and select compatibility and then on the desktop use the control panel -> Drivers and select, I think Nvidia version 470, not the newer ones or the current Linux driver. Then it was perfect.
That particular Acer needs Legacy BIOS setting not UEFI (though mostly I do use UEFI) because it's some sort of mad UEFI that needs you to manually add keys. You only need UEFI if Win8 or later, or multi-boot Linux and Win8 or later.
Must be nearly 10 years since I installed linux from CD. My last computer that couldn't boot USB was a Dell Inspiron 8200 in April 2002. Dell only added USB boot to most models from about June 2002. Also that model can't boot at all if the BIOS detects ANY storage (like in media bay) more than 120G total. Even only putting a 120G partition on a secondary 160G byte HDD blocks boot. What's weird is that in 1990s we sold PCs where we put a 2nd drive bigger than BIOS could manage. Boot NT from OK drive and then NT Disk Manager could see it, because NT didn't use the BIOS except to boot. So a Dell bug. Later FW update made no difference. MS sort of broke NT (win10 is NT) with UEFI, removal of PAE after NT 4.0 and also putting licence keys in BIOS (which you can read in Linux from a console!). In reality UEFI and TPM adds very little security. Just complexity,
