EndeavorOS installed on external SSD won't boot

General system Newbie
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Hi everyone,

I have used an external SSD (Samsung T5 500GB) to install EOS.
For the installation I used a Dell Laptop (precision 3500), and now I want to boot EOS from my main machine, but once I get into the boot menu, the only options I have are:

  1. Windows Boot Manager(Main SSD)

  2. Windows Boot Manager(External SSD)

  3. Bios Settings

I am not sure why this is happening (when I boot EOS from the external SSD, using the laptop everything works fine).

My main machine build is:

  • Ryzen 9 9700
  • NVIDIA 4090
  • Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite AX

If that matters, there is a virtualization option in bios, which I have already activated.

Thanks

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is smart boot turned off on your main machine?

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That might be difficult, if not impossible, due to different hardware on two different machines? Especially your Bios (Legacy or UEFI), different GPUs, etc. …

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Have you installed with UEFI support?

In that case, you have to be careful and do some Tweeks before and after the installation process: https://www.lorenzobettini.it/2021/11/how-to-install-linux-on-a-usb-with-uefi-support/

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Thanks for the replies guys. I didn’t actually had time to review today, but I will check tomorrow and give an update.

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This isn’t that difficult. I have in the past had a Linux on an external drive that I swapped between a couple of computers. However there are a couple of things you point out that are things the OP will have to address and that is legacy/efi boot and gpu. If he is already efi boot and non of the video cards are Nvidia it should be fairly simple.

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Is your external SSD bootable from the machine that it was originally created on?

Plug in the SSD into your Dell machine and post the output of:

sudo parted -l 
efibootmgr

Apart from the driver for Nvidia card, there are also different microcodes involved for Intel resp. AMD machines.

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@thefrog I can’t find any option for ‘Smart Boot’ into my main machine.

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12048×1536 256 KB

When I go to Secure Boot I have these options:

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My idea was to try to do a clean re-install from the USB with the ISO installer while using my main machine ( I don’t really know if that would make any difference !? ).
I am getting the following error while trying to boot from the USB:

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32048×1536 181 KB

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@pebcak
This is the output.

terminal
terminal1920×1080 108 KB

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I actually meant secure its been so long since I have had to change it just didnt remember the actual name lol however secure boot does need to be disabled

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Secure boot needs to be disabled.

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Secure boot needs to be disabled.

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Update:

I disable secure boot, but didn’t really had any impact.

What I did was to rebuild the installation device (USB) using Rufus on Windows, then I used my main machine to install EOS in the external SSD (clean install) and now everything works like a charm.

I am pretty sure that the SSD won’t work on my laptop, but for now it’s something I can live with :smiley:

Thanks for all the advice guys.

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