On 23 February 2015 at 21:22, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo@zoho.com> wrote:

On 02/23/2015 07:38 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

Eh? I have dealt with a ton of Supermicro, Asus, and other motherboard
computers and they have all worked with USB. Of course this is all
hardware post 2010 so I am guessing the age might be an issue?

Hi John,

In my case, older (say 4 years of so) Supermico motherboards have
no problem. It is the new ones I am having troubles with. I
have gotten with Supermicro over the problem and they have come
up with a new bios to fix it. It did as long as you left "legacy
USB" support enabled. Then, gosh help you if you leave and kind
of USB stick in the machine when you (re)boot up. I reported that
one to Supermicro too. Haven't heard back from them yet.

So for booting from USB, you normally have to put it into legacy USB unless you have created the key with EFI support. If you create the key with EFI support you have to play roulette with legacy either turned on or off so that the system UEFI will boot from it.

I hate upgrading BIOS'es as I have had them go foobar on me. I will
do it on a new board I haven't installed anything on yet. But
after it get configured/installed, I am loath to upgrade
a bios.

Yeah.. it used to be a lottery but they have gotten much better. These days if a BIOS bricks itself there is usually multiple things wrong with the board that you didn't know you needed to get fixed until it bricked itself. You have to do the BIOS updates fairly regularly because the kernel is looking for certain things which only an updated BIOS can offer (ACPI and such are notorious for this)

Stephen J Smoogen.