how to make a ubuntu bootable usb on bios

Mint is then installed to the target drive without the Grub bootloader instead, an alternate boot manager called rEFInd is installed manually. With this method, the live session can be booted in UEFI. As an added bonus, the USB drive can be booted in either UEFI or BIOS, which happens to be particularly convenient for me, as I have one of each.Īddendum: A couple months after posting this thread, I learned of another strategy, described by fabien85 in this post. Rather, Mint is installed to the USB drive in BIOS or legacy boot, then the EFI boot loader is installed manually from Terminal.

Especially on a machine with USB 3.0, a bootable USB drive would solve that problem very nicely.Īfter sifting through what seemed like endless blogs and forums, I tumbled across a two-year-old post on the Ubuntu forum (#45) by someone called msavini which describes exactly what I want, a relatively simple solution that most importantly doesn’t require me to bollix then fix the Windows boot loader. Also, in conversations with friends considering Linux, I’ve found them reluctant to try dual boot because of the unwind issues. HP doesn’t support legacy boot on a single session basis, so all I’m allowed to do is change the entire system back and forth, which I’m not willing to do on a daily basis. This is mainly for testing purposes, so I don’t want to do conventional dual boot.

The object of the current exercise is to add Mint to my other laptop, an HP 15 which uses UEFI. * For context, my primary Mint install is single boot to an old Toshiba laptop (BIOS, originally Win7). Several workarounds have been proposed, e.g., Nicholas Dionysopoulos, Ubuntu Help and Ubuntu Forum, but all of them are complicated and somewhat risky. One solution apparently is to disconnect the internal hard drive, but that isn’t feasible for me because it’s a laptop. The problem is that a bug in Ubiquity ends up modifying the main boot loader even if one specifies Grub should be installed to the USB drive. Spent the last month searching for a way to create a USB drive which boots in UEFI.* If someone here has posted a solution previously, I wasn’t able to find it.

How to make a ubuntu bootable usb on bios