Post #902188
2026-03-22 15:58 UTC
So I guess some anti-systemd sentiment has now led to me figuring out why I can't seem to boot my laptop off any ISO from a flash drive I've been using. I've tried changing various boot config options and they have not worked.
I'll try again with another flash drive and see what happens 🤔
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@gperson@social.linux.pizza 2026-03-22 16:33
And I figured it out! It was the flash drive I was using. According to Reddit, apparently some older USB devices won't work well in newer devices when it comes to using them as a boot device. Apparently, this was the case here, but now I'm curious as to why that's the case 🤔 Anyways, back to our original goal: trying FreeBSD on my laptop! I'll use another flash drive to install the little testing system (hopefully we can get at least a minimal KDE install up with just 16 GB of storage 💀). I'm not expecting a whole lot of things to work, but we'll see how it goes! 😄