On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 09:19:55AM +0100, Lukas Brabec wrote:
The oldest laptops I have experience with are HP 4520s and Lenovo
X201i, both from 2010, both support USB boot.
I still have two AMD server motherboards deployed that don't support
booting off of USB sticks. But to give an idea of their age, they were
introduced in mid-2006 and mid-2007, respectively, and saw their final
BIOS updates in early 2009 and mid-2010, respectively.
The older motherboard should finally be retired (again) after Xmas. But
I'll probably stash it in case its replacement gets taken out by a
lightning strike. Again.
(As an aside, I discovered the newer one didn't like USB booting when
the F29-F30 upgrade I did twelve days ago resulted in a "No Operating
System Present" failure to boot, and neither of my Fedora USB sticks
worked. I couldn't find any blank media around the lab, but one of my
colleagues had an Ubuntu DVD lying around -- with that, I was able to
grub2-install the system back to life...)
- Solomon
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