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Booting from USB External drive always fails on 1st boot, 2nd always succeds!
Just to remind users and devs that Ubuntu and its flavors have a long way to go to be as usr friendly as they should be.
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is grub on the internal hard drive of the box ?
if so it sounds like the BIOS is not detecting the external hard drive on the first boot ,,,,, I dont have any external hard drives but I have seen this behaviour from bootable USB sticks before.
dose the box (BIOS) have a quick disk select key when first starting ,,,,,,like @hear I can press esc when first starting the box and get a options menu and one option F9 I think is to chose a drive to boot from ,,,,,,,if you do have some thing like this use it on first boot and see if it lists the external hard drive (of course if grub is on the mane drive you wont be abel to boot it but you can at least see if it is been seen on first boot or not.
VINNYi7 4core HT 8MB L3 2.9GHz
16GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 860M 4GB RAM 1152 cuda cores
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Originally posted by vinnywright View Postis grub on the internal hard drive of the box ?
if so it sounds like the BIOS is not detecting the external hard drive on the first boot ,,,,, I dont have any external hard drives but I have seen this behaviour from bootable USB sticks before.
dose the box (BIOS) have a quick disk select key when first starting ,,,,,,like @hear I can press esc when first starting the box and get a options menu and one option F9 I think is to chose a drive to boot from ,,,,,,,if you do have some thing like this use it on first boot and see if it lists the external hard drive (of course if grub is on the mane drive you wont be abel to boot it but you can at least see if it is been seen on first boot or not.
VINNYJust to remind users and devs that Ubuntu and its flavors have a long way to go to be as usr friendly as they should be.
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not real shure what you could do ,,,,,my guess is that it(the external drive ) is not geting power (and powering up) untill the BIOS has allready mised it on the first boot then you do a quick reboot and it is recognized ,,,,,,but this is just a wiled guess.
maby you could give it more time to power up by disabeling fast boot in the BIOS (if you have that option) and just put up with seeing post screens and the sutch.
VINNYi7 4core HT 8MB L3 2.9GHz
16GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 860M 4GB RAM 1152 cuda cores
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Originally posted by vinnywright View Postnot real shure what you could do ,,,,,my guess is that it(the external drive ) is not geting power (and powering up) untill the BIOS has allready mised it on the first boot then you do a quick reboot and it is recognized ,,,,,,but this is just a wiled guess.
maby you could give it more time to power up by disabeling fast boot in the BIOS (if you have that option) and just put up with seeing post screens and the sutch.
VINNY
FYI the USB drive uses an external power supply. Probably USB2, doesn’t give enough power so it needs external PS.Last edited by steve7233; Feb 28, 2013, 03:32 AM.Just to remind users and devs that Ubuntu and its flavors have a long way to go to be as usr friendly as they should be.
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I'm interested in what computer you use.
At the moment I run Kubuntu from three external HD's and an SSD, all USB-3 and with GRUB on the external drive.
I use Lenovo W520 and T430s machines with USB-3 ports and it works fine but thought to have seen similar only during the first few attempts.
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HP pavilion Entertainment note book US1030.Just to remind users and devs that Ubuntu and its flavors have a long way to go to be as usr friendly as they should be.
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I tried to find some info regarding a USB port that via the BIOS can be set to supply power while the computer is off, many laptops have such.
The specifications I found on line did not made me any wiser.
Such a USB port can be recognised by a tiny flash symbol next to it.
Plugging the disk into such a port and having it powered before any thing else might do the trick.
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