Re: booting from gpt/raid?

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Thomas Mueller wrote:
> from MLH:
> 
> > Scratch the request for usb stick boot. My motherboard doesn't
> > appear to allow it. I'll see if I can build a cd that I can boot
> > off of and transfer to the hard drive for the system.
> 
> > Thanks anyway
> 
> I thought all modern PC motherboards could boot from USB stick. 

This is a Gigabyte from around 2012/2013 IIRC. 
 
> What do you see when you reboot and go into the UEFI setup and configuration?

UEFI configuration shows only CD/DVD boot and as mentioned before,
only implies UEFI hard drive boot.

> How are you supposed to install any OS, including MS-Windows, starting from a blank hard drive?
> How are you supposed to recover if something happens and you can't boot from the hard disk?

Boot Options are:
 Hard Drive, CDROM, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM, USB-HDD, Legacy LAN

> Are you not able to boot from any USB port? 

Apparently not from a memory stick