Will not boot on legacy Bios - no UEFI

[tcblack]

I'm attempting to boot the USB key on an aging xeon 3430 server I picked up. But it does not support UEFI and that appears to be how the minimal image is "burned" to require UEFI.

Can we burn this the old fashioned way?

[tcblack]

In other news: This request becomes pointless if the PXE image gets off the ground ( #9 )

[delta1512]

Currently the distros only support UEFI boot and I plan on implementing legacy boot soon as i need it to start up a personal project but it requires a lot of experimentation. You should see the feature probably 1 version after the upcoming beta.

[delta1512]

Just poking this thread if anyone wants to provide some links or info, I'll be working on getting UEFI and BIOS boot on the same OS this weekend. Thanks.

[tcblack]

I just found this looking for other info and thought it might be a helpful site overall: https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html

[delta1512]

Found this here, looks promising and I might try it, but not really the way I want to go, it would make some of the code I've written useless:

https://gist.github.com/elerch/678941eb670324ffc3f261eabba81310

[tomasbrod]

I was able to lauch the kernel after invoking grub-install, but it failed to boot. First thing that comes to mind is to remove autodetect from mkinitcpio.