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Well if they could get it to fit on a mini-dvd or a CD then nothing would be lost but I guess pre-UEFI systems are slowly going to be abandoned. (Guess coreboot community needs more funding)
My pre-UEFI system can boot from a USB drive.
Most still-functional ones can.
yeah, i think you'd have to make a lot of effort to find a pc newer than 20 years old that doesn't support usb booting
Here... I still have one :(
damn
and i thought my computer was obsolete. i bought it "new" 10 years ago, but i optimized for price, so it was already obsolete then. still, it supports usb booting
Don't forget that a lot of people still prefers legacy BIOS, even on modern system.
But most of those should support booting from USB devices.