[Bio-Linux] Portable biolinux not booting in Dell inspiron 3000

[Duleep Samuel]

I would suggest that you use virtualbox and use biolinux, UEFI boot has
problems with Linux, Samuel, IIHR, Bangalore

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Bishwa Kiran <kirannbishwa01 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have been trying to install a portable bio-linux OS on external hdd. I
> have followed the instructions given for portable ubuntu/bilinux
> installation which has been sucessful and also made sure the boot/grub
> loader is installed in the external harddrive (seagate 2 tb) during
> installation. After the completion of bio-linux installation it requests
> the restart and biolinux boots up. But, after the 2nd boot the boot widow
> of biolinux gives me an error (that a USB-3 port is not available or is
> offline). I have installed biolinux several times thinking the installation
> may have missed the files but it always turns out the same way- 1st restart
> works but after the second restart/boot there is an error message.
> My desktop is Dell inspiron 3000 (i3) which by default uses UEFI boot
> system and I have disabled it while preparing the biolinux installation and
> have used legacy mode (modified BIOS setting).
> One interesting thing is that the same portable biolinux OS which didn't
> boot from desktop boots from my gateway laptop every time though. So, the
> problem basically is that the USB-3 port is not getting recognized while
> booting. I tried another USB-3 port which gave same error, all other  USB 2
> port however show biolinux OS loading (shows a loading Biolinux logo) but
> never fully boots even after 2-3 hours.
>
> I have been trying to make this work for 5 days now. I need to use this
> portable OS mainly on my desktop due it its higher performance and also I
> have to keep things running overnight.
> Any suggestions appreciated and thanks in advance.
>
> I took the picture of the error message.
>
>
> --
> - Bish
>
>
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