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If you're trying to boot the official Void Linux ISO on an old PC and it either doesn't boot or gets stuck on a black screen, here's what worked for me:
✅ 1. Problems you may see

    USB created with dd does not boot on old BIOS

    If it boots, it may hang after “Welcome to Void…” on a black screen with a blinking cursor

    No TTYs (Ctrl+Alt+F2) work

    GPU is something old like Intel i915

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1. Download the factory binary link (download page)
   • consider downloading from the tp link page associated with your country, as directed on the page
   • the download linked to by the openWRT wiki did not work for me
2. Extract the .bin file from the zip and rename it: wr810nv1_tp_recovery.bin
3. On Ubuntu (verified on 18.10) install tftpd-hpa: sudo apt install tftpd-hpa
4. Create the default tftp directory: /var/lib/tftpboot
5. Move wr810nv1_tp_recovery.bin to /var/lib/tftpboot
6. In the gnome network manager, set the IPv4 address to manual, 192.168.0.66 with mask 255.255.255.0
7. Connect an ethernet cable between the computer and the WAN/LAN port of the router
8. Restart the tftp daemon to be sure: sudo systemctl restart tftpd-hpa.service