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I'm just not sure what I am doing wrong here. It boots on every single other computer in the house (3 different ones) but when I try to do a single boot on my system 76 laptop it just won't do it. What am I doing wrong?? It has custom firmware on it

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[–] drwho@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What do you mean, custom firmware? Are you trying to boot a different distro of Linux?

When you have the USB drive plugged in, how are you booting up? What's the process you're using?

[–] BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

The system 76 open firmware I probably shouldn't have said custom lol I do the one time boot from USB option in the startup menu. I messaged them and they said it could be because the distro uses an older legacy base.