What distro to revive a 32-bit non-UEFI laptop?
by Torpus from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6G9P8)
This is my first thread here, hi everyone!
I have some old Asus 1001PX which is 32-bit and has no UEFI just lying around there. It originally used to run Windows 7 starter and I switched it to a VERY old version of Linux Mint (probably version 11) which I found somewhere. I was looking for whether there is a "modern" distro that can work on it, but despite ones like Alpine or Bodhi who have images for the x86 system exist they work only for UEFI systems. If I made a bootable disk out of one of them the BIOS won't detect it on my machine. :(
Does anyone know some newer distro to work with this? I know there's Gentoo which has compatibility with pretty much any hardware, but I just want some "just worksy" one.
Thanks in advance!
I have some old Asus 1001PX which is 32-bit and has no UEFI just lying around there. It originally used to run Windows 7 starter and I switched it to a VERY old version of Linux Mint (probably version 11) which I found somewhere. I was looking for whether there is a "modern" distro that can work on it, but despite ones like Alpine or Bodhi who have images for the x86 system exist they work only for UEFI systems. If I made a bootable disk out of one of them the BIOS won't detect it on my machine. :(
Does anyone know some newer distro to work with this? I know there's Gentoo which has compatibility with pretty much any hardware, but I just want some "just worksy" one.
Thanks in advance!