GrandSloughi
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Hello from France,
I purchased in October 2019 a Proteus laptop, and am facing the following problem with USB key detection by the BIOS.
First of all, my final goal is to set a dual boot Windows/linux ; I have to boot on a live USB key built from a .iso image file, but at boot, the BIOS doesn't always detect the plugged in USB key ! (But... sometimes it does however...).
(By "not detecting the USB key", I mean the BIOS does NOT propose the option of booting on the USB key, as it does for all the SSD and HDD present devices, PXE environments, etc.)
So, the final goal is to set a dual boot, but the real point of this post is to stress that the BIOS (I noticed it's a BIOS, not an (U)EFI ?) often does not detect plugged USB keys.
To install another OS, I have to resize the existing partitions, so, to do that, I downloaded .iso files from Gparted (about 400 kbytes), and then, Fedora (about 1.6 Mbytes) internet sites.
The iso are burnt on the USB keys with the "Rufus" tool which allows create live USB keys from hybrid ISO files.
What I noticed :
1/ I burnt the x86_64 .iso of Gparted (400 kbytes) on an Attaché PNY 1Gbytes USB 2.0 key : the USB key is not detected at boot (after choosing the right option in the BIOS, of course !)
2/ I burnt the i686 .iso of Gparted on the same key : the USB key IS detected at boot (it's the only case of detection)
(2.1 : once started, the display is not usable because the letters appear like "compressed Morse code" ; I imagine that the embedded distribution, an old Debian, doesn't support the graphical card... but this is another problem)
3/ Fedora only delivers x86_64 .iso files ; I burnt it on a Survivor Stealth USB 3.0 key 16 Gbytes ; the key is not detected at boot
4/ I burnt the Gparted i686 on the same 16 Gbytes USB key, the key is not detected
I repeated the same tests a few number of times each, and always had the same results.
So, my conclusion is, at first sight :
* the BIOS (Quanta QP161, build of May, 27th 2019) detects small USB keys, and only with i686-architecture burnt iso,
* the BIOS doesn't detect x86_64-architecture files on USB keys,
* the BIOS doesn't detect "big capacity" USB keys (or... USB 3.0 keys).
(Less and less .iso are created for i686, or older, architectures ; this will become a problem if x86_64 iso files are not supported...)
... and of course, both keys insertions work perfectly at normal operation (i.e, once W10 started), so I would say the BIOS is under suspicion.
I have of course ever successfully used this procedure to set a dual boot on another, older laptop.
Has anybody else, ever heard about, or experimented something like this ?
Is there a way to fix this ?
Thanks in advance for your help, and please forgive my poor level in English 😉.
I purchased in October 2019 a Proteus laptop, and am facing the following problem with USB key detection by the BIOS.
First of all, my final goal is to set a dual boot Windows/linux ; I have to boot on a live USB key built from a .iso image file, but at boot, the BIOS doesn't always detect the plugged in USB key ! (But... sometimes it does however...).
(By "not detecting the USB key", I mean the BIOS does NOT propose the option of booting on the USB key, as it does for all the SSD and HDD present devices, PXE environments, etc.)
So, the final goal is to set a dual boot, but the real point of this post is to stress that the BIOS (I noticed it's a BIOS, not an (U)EFI ?) often does not detect plugged USB keys.
To install another OS, I have to resize the existing partitions, so, to do that, I downloaded .iso files from Gparted (about 400 kbytes), and then, Fedora (about 1.6 Mbytes) internet sites.
The iso are burnt on the USB keys with the "Rufus" tool which allows create live USB keys from hybrid ISO files.
What I noticed :
1/ I burnt the x86_64 .iso of Gparted (400 kbytes) on an Attaché PNY 1Gbytes USB 2.0 key : the USB key is not detected at boot (after choosing the right option in the BIOS, of course !)
2/ I burnt the i686 .iso of Gparted on the same key : the USB key IS detected at boot (it's the only case of detection)
(2.1 : once started, the display is not usable because the letters appear like "compressed Morse code" ; I imagine that the embedded distribution, an old Debian, doesn't support the graphical card... but this is another problem)
3/ Fedora only delivers x86_64 .iso files ; I burnt it on a Survivor Stealth USB 3.0 key 16 Gbytes ; the key is not detected at boot
4/ I burnt the Gparted i686 on the same 16 Gbytes USB key, the key is not detected
I repeated the same tests a few number of times each, and always had the same results.
So, my conclusion is, at first sight :
* the BIOS (Quanta QP161, build of May, 27th 2019) detects small USB keys, and only with i686-architecture burnt iso,
* the BIOS doesn't detect x86_64-architecture files on USB keys,
* the BIOS doesn't detect "big capacity" USB keys (or... USB 3.0 keys).
(Less and less .iso are created for i686, or older, architectures ; this will become a problem if x86_64 iso files are not supported...)
... and of course, both keys insertions work perfectly at normal operation (i.e, once W10 started), so I would say the BIOS is under suspicion.
I have of course ever successfully used this procedure to set a dual boot on another, older laptop.
Has anybody else, ever heard about, or experimented something like this ?
Is there a way to fix this ?
Thanks in advance for your help, and please forgive my poor level in English 😉.
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