USB Install on ASUS P5KPL- can’t boot from USB

Hello,

I‘m trying to install OMV from a bootable USB to an older machine with an ASUS P5KPL main board.

The image was downloaded (5.1.1),

A stick was formatted to vfat,

I created a bootable USB stick (using the handy function of the context menu on Linux Mint),

tested the stick- it boots on other machines (Compaq Presario 6000 e.g.),

So the bootable image is ok.

But it won’t boot on this ASUS machine!

Went into the bios:

Can set boot order and selected USB as 1st boot option.

The machine does still not boot into the setup menu of OMV, just get a black screen.

When I boot the ASUS machine (there’s a Mint 17 on it at the moment), it goes straight into the existing OS and the USB is mounted and appears innocently as a /media drive!

Not sure where to go from here. Am I right in targeting the main board for this?

It all hangs on this machine not wanting to boot from USB, slightly frustrated!

Well,

I wanted to get away from using any full Linux distro for just a file server.

OMV seemed just right, also as I can allocate space for other users more easily.

And this is the old machine I got, wanted to make use of it.

Ok, I can try and burn a CD but then again- if it recognises the USB stick, it might not install from CD either.

Just wonder why and whether anyone else had this before as well.

I still had an image of Bodhi Linux around and created a bootable stick with that.

The machine consistently ignores the USB stick.

So whether it’s OMV or Debian doesn’t seem to matter- now I do blame ASUS...

Done have a 2nd machine at hand where i can just swap the HDD.

Ok, just to give some feedback:

This main board definitely did not want to do a USB install.

I burnt the image on a CD and it all worked well.

I‘m now working myself into the details of OMV.