I have some unusual boot behavior that just came up and wondering if it is refind.
I have two identical usb drives I use for live backup, mirroring and archiving swapping them out every few days. Been dooing that for a year + with these drives and refind.
Just yesterday when one of them is attached to machine during boot up the machine hangs at what I can only can guess is the refind (no way to log when exactly?).
If I pull the connector at the "hang" refind and booting conintues normally, but as I say only on one of the two drives, the other attached the machine boots normally.
This has me scratching my head. To be sure I set the bios so that refind on my internal drive is the only boot option, no usb devices...still hangs.
I do have some kernal files on those drives that refind could find so wondering if maybe that's the issue (but why one drive not the other?).
Any thoughts, ideas (Rod)? Is my motherboard/bios hanging not refind?
I think I might try to set my scan delay back to zero see if that does anything.
Is there a setting to ignore USB drives when looking for bootable kernals?
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You say you've been doing this for a while with these usb drives, but have you been doing it with the same computer? If not, then I would agree it's probably a motherboard issue. But if you've been doing it with the same machine, I don''t see why it would be the motherboard, unless you updated the bios recently and it introduced a bug.
FWIW, I've got a gateway laptop that keeps rebooting, never reaching refind or any other boot manager/loader, when any bootable usb drive is plugged in. I can boot from a usb drive, if I unplug it, get into refind, plug in the drive and then tell refind to scan drives. I can boot from the dvd drive without needing refind, which is how I managed to install refind on the computer.
HTH.
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I have some unusual boot behavior that just came up and wondering if it is refind.
I have two identical usb drives I use for live backup, mirroring and archiving swapping them out every few days. Been dooing that for a year + with these drives and refind.
Just yesterday when one of them is attached to machine during boot up the machine hangs at what I can only can guess is the refind (no way to log when exactly?).
If I pull the connector at the "hang" refind and booting conintues normally, but as I say only on one of the two drives, the other attached the machine boots normally.
This has me scratching my head. To be sure I set the bios so that refind on my internal drive is the only boot option, no usb devices...still hangs.
I do have some kernal files on those drives that refind could find so wondering if maybe that's the issue (but why one drive not the other?).
Any thoughts, ideas (Rod)? Is my motherboard/bios hanging not refind?
I think I might try to set my scan delay back to zero see if that does anything.
Is there a setting to ignore USB drives when looking for bootable kernals?
So I found setting and enabled scanning for "internal" drives only
scanfor internaland problem persists. The more I read around internet the more I am thinking this is the drive/motherboard issue not refind.
You say you've been doing this for a while with these usb drives, but have you been doing it with the same computer? If not, then I would agree it's probably a motherboard issue. But if you've been doing it with the same machine, I don''t see why it would be the motherboard, unless you updated the bios recently and it introduced a bug.
FWIW, I've got a gateway laptop that keeps rebooting, never reaching refind or any other boot manager/loader, when any bootable usb drive is plugged in. I can boot from a usb drive, if I unplug it, get into refind, plug in the drive and then tell refind to scan drives. I can boot from the dvd drive without needing refind, which is how I managed to install refind on the computer.
HTH.