Fedora 19 on 386

Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 23 01:36:58 UTC 2013


On 2013-04-22 19:24 (GMT-0400) Fernando Cassia composed:

> I remember Pentium III machines came from the USB 1.x era, not USB 2.0.
> So likely your BIOS won't allow you to boot from a USB-anything port
> using "mass storage devices".

PIII predates USB2 by only about a year, while USB2 predates P4 by about 7 
months. Thus, a PIII system may or may not have USB2 support on the motherboard.

BIOS boot from USB support came much later, 2004 if Wikipedia is correct.
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