@mmortal03 wrote:
“I’ve dealt with this issue for a while with my own SanDisk Fit 32 GB USB 3.0 thumb drive, and had come across the remove and re-insert trick somewhere, but I’d never found a permanent fix. I just read jdb2’s suggestion above from 2015, and his follow-up from 2016, but none of what he suggests seems to fix the problem for me. I tried adding those various parameters to the grub default boot line, making sure to update grub and everything, but none of them on that rootwait … line, nor any of the “quirks” parameters that I could discern seemed to work. Maybe I didn’t use the right quirks parameters? What did other people actually use?”
Well, I’m sorry that my suggested solution didn’t work for you :(. I didn’t work for me either which is why I started using a chain bootloader.
“Also, it’s not clear how that “kiyoshi’s help” boot loader would help in this instance. Is there not just a straightforward config that is known to work with these faulty drives and, say, a standard Linux Mint Cinnamon install (with no special bootloader config required)?”
Well, “kyoshi’s help” just searches your system for boot loaders and then presents you with a menu which lists the various boot loaders that the “kyoshi’s help” can chain load. I my case, my boot-loader was GRUB on ext4. It’s a big kludge though and it’s inconvenient because I had to burn “kiyoshi’s help” to a DVD and then I’d boot off of the DVD and then I’d select the boot-loader for my LInux Mint install, which was in an USB slot, and then my install would be chain-booted successfully
I hope this helps,
jdb2
