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Certain thumbdrives keep a system from going out of the boot screen

Certain thumbdrives keep a system from going out of the boot screen

I have an old r51 which I boot off USB. Apparently, if I have a Toshiba 2GB thumbdrive similar to this plugged in:

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Any chance your old BIOS only knows about old Master Boot Records (MBR) and chokes on modern GUID Partition Tables (GPT), and those flash drives use GPT instead of MBR for their partition maps?