Answer by Raffzahn for XW8000 workstation boot from USB
Adding manufacturer and type of machine might help others to identify what this is about.According to Google the XW8000 seems be an early 2000s PC by HP. Is that right?Are you sure it's already capable...
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I have an old XW8000 machine that I’ve been trying and failing boot from USB for the last week.I’ve tried burning Ubuntu 6.0, 8.0, 14.0, 22.04 on USB media using PowerIso and BalenaEtcher and the usb...
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It seems your system is from the early 2000s, 2003 at the latest (in its initial release). The ability to boot from USB was specified in the USB mass storage bootability spec, which was finalised in...
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Assuming XW8000 is the HP workstation of the same name, chances are it wasn't bootable via USB. One option to consider would be the Plop bootloader (v5) which can be downloaded here:...
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