<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV></DIV> <DIV>I think the original developer of the BIOS is in a retirement home by now, or may be he got shot.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I search for the BIOS update, there does not seem to be one. It's for a Toshiba Satellite 1115-S103 laptop.</DIV> <DIV><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 4<BR>Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:09:12 +1000<BR>From: Basil Chupin <<A href="mailto:blchupin@iinet.net.au" ymailto="mailto:blchupin@iinet.net.au">blchupin@iinet.net.au</A>><BR>Subject: Re: BIOS too old<BR>To: <A href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</A><BR>Message-ID: <<A href="mailto:4C6CCA88.3050704@iinet.net.au" ymailto="mailto:4C6CCA88.3050704@iinet.net.au">4C6CCA88.3050704@iinet.net.au</A>><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<BR><BR>On 19/08/2010 15:49, Johnny Lee wrote:<BR>> Hello,<BR>> I think this issue probably had been brought up before. But I can't <BR>> find a satisfactory answer in the Ubuntu support database yet.<BR>> I think my BIOS (Windows XP) is too old. It can only boot from floppy <BR>> drive, dvd drive, network, and hard drive (in that order). I got to <BR>> the step of having Ubuntu 10.04 on a USB stick but I can't boot from <BR>> it. What can I do?<BR>> Thanks,<BR>> Johnny<BR><BR>Send the BIOS to the retirement home :-) - or shoot it if it's in agony.<BR><BR>I have the same problem with one of my motherboards - it just cannot <BR>boot from an USB stick :-( . Too old....seen better days...<BR><BR>Unless of course there is an upgrade to that BIOS. Have you checked?<BR><BR>BC<BR></DIV></div><br> </body></html>