Hi. I've got a Samsung all-in-one desktop computer running Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon. Lately on startup and immediately after the Samsung splash screen (before Linux starts) it sticks with a large cursor flashing in the top left of the screen. Several startup attempts usually will get it starting correctly.
Also, very often and this seems to have started at the same time, it will not register USB storage devices in the file browser. The USB transmitter for the wireless keyboard/mouse always seems to work, however.
Seems to me I have a bios issue, right?
I use Linux because I hate the alternatives but I'm no geek. Please ask me if there's any info that would help here.
Thanks
Occasional startup and USB issues
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Occasional startup and USB issues
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Mute Ant
Re: Occasional startup and USB issues
You might try setting the hard drive to be the only device that the BIOS is allowed to look at during boot. My BIOS defaults to...
BOOT ORDER: Floppy: Optical: Removable: Hard drive
...which is okay up to the 'removable' step. Any USB store that has an MBR but no actual boot code, such as is produced by the fdisk command, will freeze my machine just as you describe.
Even then, some USB sticks have firmware that declares the store as a 'fixed' drive and they appear in the Hard Drive section. I resorted to switching off all the automatic boot-device logic anf press F8 to choose my boot-drive manually.
BOOT ORDER: Floppy: Optical: Removable: Hard drive
...which is okay up to the 'removable' step. Any USB store that has an MBR but no actual boot code, such as is produced by the fdisk command, will freeze my machine just as you describe.
Even then, some USB sticks have firmware that declares the store as a 'fixed' drive and they appear in the Hard Drive section. I resorted to switching off all the automatic boot-device logic anf press F8 to choose my boot-drive manually.