On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 03:46:20PM -0400, Šarūnas Burdulis wrote: > On 2026-07-14 14:18, Pantelis Papadopoulos wrote: > > Greetings. > > I need your help with the following situation: > > > > I want to install Debian 13 on an external SSD USB 3.0 and I want to > > boot from that drive which is connected to an external USB 3.0 adapter > > that is not recognized by the BIOS: the motherboard ASUS P5K (LGA775 > > Socket), which is old, supports fine USB 2.0 boot. > > And because it seems that there is no a solution to that problem > > (booting directly from external USB 3.0 adapter), I want to know if I > > could boot from USB 2.0 with GRUB or a GNU/Linux distribution (Debian > > 13) installed on it as an intermediary step and then select a USB 3.0 > > disk which would be connected to USB 3.0 external card to boot from it. > > This, in principle, should work, however clunky it is. > > You may have reasons to not go this route, but: P5K does have what looks > like 5 SATA ports. In case any of them are available, that's were the SSD > would be happier than on USB. There are also PCIe slots, which if available, > could take in a PCIe-NVMe add-on card.
This are very good points, thanks. Perhaps the USB3 adapter is not needed, after all. [...] > · https://useplaintext.email · :-) Cheers -- t
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