I have an older desktop (circa 2010) that I’m trying to repurpose into a small game server and NAS. It doesn’t have UEFI. I’ve tried booting from USB and from DVD. I can get into the BIOS boot menu and select the device to boot from, but after I select it just goes to a blank screen.
I’m using the onboard AMD GPU. This is a fresh hard drive. I’ve tried the boot media on my laptop and it boots fine. I’ve put the old Windows 7 SSD back into the desktop and it boots fine. I’ve tried different images: Fedora Silverblue, Antix x64, Antix 386. Everything is giving the same results.
Can you recommend any other troubleshooting tips?
Try USB 2 ports using a USB 2 drive, and try different ports. Ive seen issues where I had a perfectly good drive and it wouldnt boot at all. Using a different port it installed fine. Similar issues using USB 3 drive or ports in machines only a few years old.