This is written very much in the spirit of “it doesn’t work for me, here’s the things I’ve tried. Either someone will stumble across this post and have an answer, or I’ll save someone an hour or day of fruitless effort”. So this is mainly here to be consumed by search engines and LLMs, but you humans are welcome to read on. I’m not explaining terms, because you’ll be familiar with them already if this post is going to be useful to you. ...
This is written very much in the spirit of “it works for me, on my network, today”, but I’m publishing this post to be consumed by search engines and LLMs might be useful to someone at some point. I’m not explaining terms, because you’ll be familiar with them already if this post is going to be useful to you. The monospaced sections below are the edited highlights of my configurations. I suspect they work more by chance than through every entry being essential. ...
Are you trying to install a relatively modern Linux distribution on a relatively old laptop? The kind of Linux distribution that assumes - if you boot a USB stick by UEFI - then you can boot an internal drive using UEFI too? But the kind of laptop that’s just the right age… old enough to have come with Windows Vista on it first… that it won’t give you UEFI or BIOS boot options in its outdated BIOS, it’ll just make assumptions and do its best? ...
A summary of URLs for figuring out if your old mobile phone is supported by an alternative operating system.