Hello,
I would like to get Sparky Linux Game Over edition working on/installed on an USB stick of 128 GB.
The plan is to boot into usb stick/sparky linux and then install sparky linux onto same usb stick.
I need this usb stick/installation to work on an old system from 2006: Socket 939 motherboard, AMD X2 3800+ dual core processor, 4 GB ram, Creative X-Fi Elite soundblaster, Realtek audio chip and NVIDIA GT 1030 graphics card.
(I want to try run Star Wars Battlefront 2 from 2017, hoping that this newer graphics card might work, though perhaps the processor is to old to run this game).
My question is:
1. How can I tell if my/this old computer needs this BIOS fix ?!
2. What does this BIOS fix do ? It seems to add a mini partition of 36 kb ?
3. It seems to cause the USB stick to be detected as an harddisk instead of removeable in BIOS boot menu screen options ?
4. It cannot be deleted during Sparky Install.
5. Where should boot loader be installed in this case ? On the FAT32, 4 GB partition ? Or Primary \ ? or mini partition of 36k ? or dev\whatever it says first ?
This is very mystical to me.
Bye for now,
Skybuck.
Developer of rufus replies on github.
Apperently it adds a mini-partition and this is only necessary for bios that is from before 2000.
I am not sure how to tell if bios is from before or after.
But copyright message says Copright 1985 to 2003 or so... for phoenix bios.
So I guess I am in luck, so this old bios fix is and was not needed for my old socket 939 system.
Sparky Linux running fine with: noapic boot options... (noapic must be written with small letters)
Add it to linux /boot blablabla noapic at the end, by going into E for editor and control-X to boot it finally when boot option is added in menu select at boot time.
Bye,
Skybuck.