This is an old Pentium 4 machine and the bios does not allow booting from USB, the setting is CD, HD, Floppy. I have tried to install the level 4 updates with no success and although I have restored my machine back to what I thought was a stable version sometimes it will boot from Grub and other it just locks up.CiaW wrote:If that doesn't take care of the issue, it may be that your system is looking at the usb drive and trying to boot to it, perhaps? One thing you could try is adding the drive to your fstab, see example here:Fornhamfred wrote:Thanks for your reply
Edit: This was a red herring. I have now installed all the level 3 updates. There appears to be a problem with USB after the update. If I leave my USB external drive plugged in then the system goes thro the grub screen but then locks up. If the drive is removed all is well.
I will now try to bring in the level 4 & 5 updates and see what happens
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 6&p=400351
Or it may be changing the boot order in your bios would fix it, also?
Is there any log that I can look at to see the difference between the episodes? This is with or without the USB drive being plugged in.
Googling the libata comment on the failed boot screen has thrown up this bug report - http://osdir.com/ml/debian-bugs-dist/20 ... 04440.html