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Just received my new Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon- 16GB USB flash drive(32-bit). Plugged it in and it does not show up in BIOS. I have tried all USB ports, Disabled/Enabled Secure Boot, Enabled/Disabled Fast Boot. Downloading earlier version of Linux to make a bootable USB has been time consuming and tedious. I eventually succeeded but prefer not to go thru that again. I hoped buying a pre-installed Linux USB would spare me so much time and effort. I am trying to install Linux 19.1 onto a 1T external SSD hard drive and then replacing my old sputtering HDD hard drive(Linux Mint 18.3) with the new SSD.
Distribution: openSUSE(Leap and Tumbleweed) and a (not so) regularly changing third and fourth
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I'm pretty sure the BIOS will not actually see a specific usb stick. You have to boot into the bios and change the boot order to usb from hdd. Then when you boot you will have the option to boot a bootable usb stick.
Just found out on my new Dell that some (maybe all? Mine, at least) UEFI computers don't show the USB drive if the drive is legacy* bootable and the computer is't set up to boot in legacy mode.
Edit: So maybe an option is to change the "BIOS" settings to legacy mode? This may mean repartitioning the SSD as well.
*Don't know what the difference is, haven't had time to look into it yet - absence/presence of an EFI partition maybe?
Last edited by fido_dogstoyevsky; 06-11-2019 at 08:59 PM.
Not sure why you would want a 32bit but that's your choice. If the usb doesn't show up as a drive either under usb or hard drives in the BIOS, have you tested it on another computer to see if it is recognized?
I would first install the USB HDD in the PC, then I would use a 64 bit image, set the BIOS to use UEFI/Secure Boot and disable fast boot. You will save many headaches later and it's more likely to work this way.
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