[ale] Tales of woe and befuddlement

[Jim Kinney]

I'm assuming this system does new-fangled EUFI boot. Poke in the startup stuff and look for boot devices. See if you can add that usb3 interface.

On March 4, 2019 5:18:20 PM EST, William Wylde via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>So I bought a 250 gb external SSD (PNY USB 3.1), to plug into a usb 3.0
>port on my computer- in the hopes that I could install Linux on the
>SSD.
>
>I had a dual-boot windows 7/xubuntu 18.02 system that was running just
>fine, except the windows 7 system was basically hosed and slow, and I
>needed it faster for gaming (the only real reason I had a windoze
>partition
>at all).  And assuming that I could put Linux on the SSD, I went ahead
>and
>bought a windoze 10 license along with a usb install stick and put it
>on my
>main 1tb disk.  That went off without a hitch.
>
>BUT
>
>The bios in my computer doesn't see my PNY elite 250gb PSSD at all.  It
>ees
>the usb 2.0 card reader, and will add it to the boot device list with
>no
>problem- but the new external SSD is invisible to it.
>
>The drive itself is fine.   Windoze see's it with no problem, and it's
>access time is what you'd expect from a usb 3.0 connected SSD.
>
>And now I can't get a xubuntu install CD or USB stick to work either.
>They hang, and eventually the hdmi display will time-out and tell me
>that
>there's no input from the computer.
>
>"Trusted computing" is turned off, and I can find no settings
>concerning
>EHCI in the bios setup utility, so I'm at a loss.   Anybody have a clue
>as
>to what I'm doing wrong?
>
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>always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
>become great.”
>
>― Mark Twain

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