USB SSD not accepted by Linux OSes
by MBentefor from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6J5W5)
Hi guys.
I have a tiny USB SSD which I wanted to use to boot different Live systems from.
It has 2 "devices" inside (LUNs), one - read only 3 mib CD-drive and one - main memory.
The main memory is split into 2 partitions - fat32 (16gb) and exFat (empty, 100 gb).
Unfortunately, GParted, Kali and Knoppix weren't able to start from it. They all stuck on some udev/disk related moments.
Then I started up GParted from another USB stick, then connected the USB-SSD and ran smartctl. Which... simply hanged forever. Every access to /dev/sdb resulted in a hanging.
Question: are there "USB memory devices" totally unsupported by Linux kernel?
Or am I missing something?
Please advise, for I'd really love to run some Linux off this USB-SSD stick. Thank you!
I have a tiny USB SSD which I wanted to use to boot different Live systems from.
It has 2 "devices" inside (LUNs), one - read only 3 mib CD-drive and one - main memory.
The main memory is split into 2 partitions - fat32 (16gb) and exFat (empty, 100 gb).
Unfortunately, GParted, Kali and Knoppix weren't able to start from it. They all stuck on some udev/disk related moments.
Then I started up GParted from another USB stick, then connected the USB-SSD and ran smartctl. Which... simply hanged forever. Every access to /dev/sdb resulted in a hanging.
Question: are there "USB memory devices" totally unsupported by Linux kernel?
Or am I missing something?
Please advise, for I'd really love to run some Linux off this USB-SSD stick. Thank you!