USB boot with flash or HDD in ARCH64

The information provided by mobo mfrs never includes bios boot info.
Please help me to find at least one 64bit mobo that does bios boot using USB 2.0 devices.
I figure I might as well get 64bit aloing with the USB bios boot and large ram all at the same time.

Tried to boot USB flash drive on three high profile machines at FRY's, one an HP , a FRY's model and a Gateway.  None would boot from my flash drive.
I suspect that admin has strapped the USB boot to prevent virus entry into the boot on their demo machines.
I have no way of determining whether a mobo boots from USB flash .  None of the salespersons even know what bios boot options are present in their demo computers to say nothing about their multitude of mobos.
Motherboards.org has no info on bios boot options.
I desire to purchase a mobo which will boot from Larch flash drive into arch in ram.  The mobo has to have 2GB of ram (or more).
I will pursue any good candidate whether 32 bit or 64bit mobo.

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