Boot Problems (bios?)

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I disconnected the spinner and the SSD shows in the bios.  Once selected 
the box boots automatically.

I plugged the spinner back in and it shows in the boot menu (F12) but 
not in the bios (F2).

Any thoughts?

Keith



On 2022-10-28 15:34, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:



> Hi,
> 
> I changed out a 240G SSD with a 500Gb SSD on a computer that had been 
> running Linux years ago.  It is a Dell i-5 w/16Gb of RAM.
> 
> It was my daily driver until I had to move to Windows for business 
> reasons.  The computer is 9 years old and hardly used.
> 
> I installed Kubuntu 22.04 on it.  So far so good.
> 
> After the install it would not boot.  If I hit the F12 key repeatedly, 
> while booting, I get a boot prompt that shows both my SSD and my hard 
> drive which is the original spinner. If I select the SSD drive it boots 
> right up.
> 
> When I go into the bios it only shows the hard drive and an option for 
> booting.  The SSD is not in the list of options.
> 
> I changed the connects to the motherboard, switching the SSD to 1 and 
> the spinner to 2.  There is no 0.  This did not change things.
> 
> Any thoughts on how to fix this problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Keith
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