I have a laptop, which has a sata2 drive connected to it with usb3-sata adapter. That sata drive has linux, the internal ssd has windows.
I heard i need to enable usb booting, but i can’t find such thing in bios, and it is propably enabled because i was able to install linux on that drive and did the good way of mbr partitioning (gpt is not aviable on my specific model) grub is also installed, i checked it in chroot. Nothing detects the drive with Garuda on it, except its live media itself. Not windows, and not boot manager, not even the bios. The problem is that i can’t boot into linux, no matter what i do, always windows boots up. I tried removing FlexNet, which succeeded, reinstalled grub, disabled windows boot manager, windows still boots up somehow, no sign of Garuda. I want Garuda to be the primary, windows the secondary. of course windows doesn’t recognize it not even in the operating systems selector. Grub is installed, yet doesn’t shot up anywhere during boot. How can i solve it? I have absoutely no idea why this happens and what causes it, let alone how to solve it.
I don’t understand why you skip the posting template and then ask questions that, without the output of garuda-inxi, require a lot of research if someone wants specific help. Without the necessary information, all you can do is speculate. It could be this or that or something else entirely.
This is disrespectful to the users who sacrifice their free time to help solve other users’ problems.
maybe fair but how would he get an inxi if it doesn’t boot?
please explain by what means you are attempting to boot into the usb connected linux drive. like are you pressing f2 or something during early machine start.
i’m new, i have no idea how to post here
what is inxi?
once into garuda linux open the terminal and type garuda-inxi and the output is generally informative. since you can’t even boot into linux yet it might not be relevant yet.
i have this drive connected with a sata-usb3.0 adapter. I set usb drive priority on the absolute top in the bios. I tried f12, which brings up a boot menu, themed like my bios, it only has an option to boot into windows 11
ok you need to enter the bios and check if the machine is setup to recognize usb drives as bootable.
do you know how to enter the bios on that machine?
i can only boot into live enviroment
I think there is some confusion in terms.
delete key, i entered it way too many times. how can i check if it supports usb booting? i couldn’t find any setting like that
ok but hold on what do you mean by live environment? how is that happening do you have another usb storage device or something?
i have a pendrive, which is the installation media, it has the live enviroment. My target is the sata hdd. Btw f2 doesn’t do anything on my computer
ok well once you boot unto that drive’s live environment assuming its also garuda linux can you type garuda-inxi? also no offense but your explanations are a little poor and context use is abyssal.
Also if a pendrive works that usb booting is not the issue. my assumption at this point is that drive you have connected to the sata to usb converter is not configured correctly like it is missing a boot partition or something. can you explain how that install of garuda was made on that drive?
i did everything according to the recommended gpt partitioning table, however i did manual partitioning, because it didn’t present any other option for that drive.
type: file system mounting point flag (size)
Efi: fat32 /boot/efi boot (500 mb)
root: btrfs / root (77.15 GB)
swap: swap - swap (3.91 GB)
home: btrfs /home - (849.96 GB)
probably a driver issue for the usb adapter. what is the precise name or model number for the adapter?
how can i know that and what driver i should look for? windows disk management and garuda live enviroment recognizes the disk. Is it ok if i look for it in windows 11 device manager and try to install drivers from there?
no its not the drive that needs drivers is grub or honestly the machine motherboard bios chip itself something.