[sf-lug] can not boot LinuxMint from USB on a new machine - FreeDos HP 500-021kl

[Ken Shaffer]

Hi Frantisek,
Try the Esc button to bring up the boot devices.  If you can get into the
UEFI Settings/BIOS, Set the delay time to greater than 0, to give yourself
a better chance to hit the boot option keys.  The gotcha it that getting
into the UEFI settings usually takes a function key, (varies by machine,
F2, F10, F12, DEL, ...) so you may need to try various things like typing
the key rapidly just after power on, or holding down the key then power on.
  With FreeDOS, I assume your machine had disabled Secure Boot, but usually
there is a separate setting for UEFI vs Legacy (or compatibility mode).
How is the disk set up?  Does it use the msdos partitioning or gpt?  Does
it have an EFI boot partition (about 300M, Fat32, boot flagged), a
grub-bios partition (about 1 meg, unformatted)?   Did you want to keep the
FreeDOS, because I'm not sure it it can use gpt partitioning, but from what
you are saying, it seems like gpt would suit you better (you could set up
it for both EFI and legacy booting, and not have to worry about lacking a
primary partition for Windows when you get around to install it.
Ken
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