Is the drive partitioned with a boot switch added? I seem to recall this being an issue with manually partitioned drives back before I didn’t care about partitioning. > On Aug 11, 2019, at 10:36 PM, Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> wrote: > > Is the boot device formatted for a legacy boot, or UEFI boot? Is the desktop configured to boot that method? > > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 10:08 PM Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com <mailto:woodbrian77 at gmail.com>> wrote: > Shalom > > I'm having trouble booting from an external drive that > has a usb interface. I can boot from the drive with > either of my laptops, but not from my desktop. The > desktop has a fairly new gigabyte motherboard. I've > tried different boot sequences, but it either boots from > the desktop's internal drive or it says: Reboot and > select proper boot device or insert boot media in > selected boot device and press a key. > -------------------------- > I've tried using different usb ports on the desktop. > The only idea I have is doing a bios update. I don't > have any idea if that would help, but don't know what > else to try. Any other ideas? Thanks. > > > Brian > Ebenezer Enterprises - Enjoying programming again. > https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards <https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards/graphs/traffic> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > > > -- > Jeff Chapin > President, CedarLug, retired > President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" > President, UNI Scuba Club > Senator, NISG, retired > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20190812/05fe875e/attachment.html>