RE: Debian Testing boot

2016-11-18 Thread Matt Graham
Mark Phillips wrote: I have an older laptop running Debian testing with two USB drives attached. If I remove the drives, it boots normally. If I leave the drives connected, it gets stuck at the first boot screen where it asks to go into the boot menu. I suspect that the machine is confused a

Re: Debian Testing boot

2016-11-17 Thread kitepilot
I had the same problem some years ago. But with a mouse! Mouse plugged, no boot, mouse unplugged, no problem... Ended up getting another putter... Good luck! :) ET Mark Phillips writes: I have an older laptop running Debian testing with two USB drives attached. If I remove the drives, it bo

RE: Debian Testing boot

2016-11-17 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Can you tell the BIOS to not ever use the USB drives? If not, can you make the BIOS have the real hard drive be the first thing it tries? (think ‘Boot order’) That should be settable in the BIOS even when you’re working the settings without a USB device connected. If neither of those work, yo