• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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    13 days ago

    Oh boy, you haven’t met some Dell Optiplexes.

    That shit, for whatever reason, can’t boot from internal DVD drive. I tried with 2 of them. Both had functional drives, I tried disabling secure boot, enabling legacy boot and some other settings which seemed related, but nothing worked. Then for shits and giggles I tried a USB DVD drive and that worked just fine.

    • terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 days ago

      Ya…some devices are seemingly straight hostile for doing this. Combined with Dells insistence on shipping PCs with a wonky “raid” mode for it’s single drive. Just mess. UEFI/secure boot etc…