Booting from SSD

[Patrick]

I let the emmc on and did a format After booting from ssd.

 

Do you have driver issues or missing driver? Because there is a driver dump in the Download section

[Ernst Kuzorra]

Okay, fixed the thermal framework thing by downloading and intel driver for win10 from microsoft.

Now that all the gigabytes of updates have been installed (which was REALLY a pain in the ass, since I installed using a rather old win10-ISO), it’s quite responsive and boot up time is fine.

Still the I2C thing is marked with a yellow triangle in the HID section (touchpad related?).I don’t know which driver is missing, windows claims that the driver is up to date and there is no newer/better version available. I’m not aware of anything that is not working properly, nevertheless it annoys me.

 

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[Bernd]

Patrick wrote:

I let the emmc on and did a format After booting from ssd. Do you have driver issues or missing driver? Because there is a driver dump in the Download section

How did you fix the bios? you had trouble with bios after flashing, right?

My SSD (kingspec) is still on its way and I’m following this thread with some curiousity if mine will work???

[Challi]

I installed a Samsung 850 Evo 250GB SSD, cloned the OS across from the emmc and then formatted the emmc.  Startup from emmc was about 30 seconds, and from SSD was just over 20.  The SSD read/write speeds were about 2.5x those of the emmc.

All was fine for a couple of weeks until I started having a ‘Preparing Automatic Repair’ loop problem.  No Window’s self-diagnosis tools or resets or system restores could fix it, although disconnecting the battery and re-attaching often cleared it once, until the next time it was shut down / started up again.

Eventually I just had to remove the SSD, fresh install Windows onto emmc, reinstall SSD to get the thing stable.  At that point I decided from now on I’ll wait the extra 10 seconds boot time each time rather than risking another X number of hours trying to fix it and installing windows etc.  I can still put most programs onto the SSD at installation so they run nice and quickly.

[Ernst Kuzorra]

Well Bernd, after flashing I was quite happy and everything seemed fine.

Having some issues now, because the BIOS seems to forget the SSD from time to time, so no booting is possible, because I wipe the eMMC….
Even if the SSD is detected, sometime it’s moved to 2nd rank in boot order, so I end up in the UEFI shell. This happens mostly after the SSD had been “forgotten” by the BIOS. So far I couldn’t figure out what the problem is….

 

@Challi: I could always avoid going through the fixing loop by selecting the right partition. The problem here is (probably) the non-wiped eMMC.

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[Ernst Kuzorra]

Now I’m really happy 🙂

So far I was not really satisfied with the linuxium script, since there was always something wrong, either no wifi or not possible to install, if it booted at all.

Thanks to this site I finally managed to boot the Linuxxes I like and now I’ve set up Xubuntu 16.04 basicaly out of the box. For me even the steps beyond 2.3 were not necessary, grub works fine and doesn’t need to be replace by refind. (As you can guess, the fisrst comment below is mine at https://thanhsiang.org/faqing/node/221 )

Also no “lost” boot parameters in BIOS since, I hope it stays like that.

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[Ernst Kuzorra]

Sadly the BIOS changes from time to time, so first boot device is wrong and I often end up in the UEFI shell. Very annoying!

Anyone else experiencing this? I’m on v5 BIOS, manually unlocked

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[Bernd]

So far no problem with my v6 unlocked bios. Have a Crucial MX300 275 GB hooked up and so far no failures at boot. Have the emmc as data disk.

[PaulStone]

Bernd wrote:

So far no problem with my v6 unlocked bios. Have a Crucial MX300 275 GB hooked up and so far no failures at boot. Have the emmc as data disk.

for how long you’re using mx300 as windows disk? all windows partitions from emmc are deleted?

[Bernd]

Well not that long actually. Only for a couple of days. After how much time is your ezb suffering from this phenomen?

All partitions deleted from the emmc indeed.

[Ernst Kuzorra]

Still no boot issues with the SSD?

I have v5 unlocked and it troubles me almost on a daily basis. I also have another Ezbook 3 Pro here that just arrived – v6, still locked – which I bought for my aunt. If v6 is really much better (i.e. more stable with SSD), I could switch….but I don’t want to do it just to find out that it’s not better at all.

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[javier]

I have a ezbook 3 pro v4 and I tried clonning the emmc to ssd kingspec 256gb and disable emmc, fresh install ssd, changing bios option to boot ssd but usually when turn off or reboot  it boot UEFI shell console.

The only solution was, fresh install in emmc and then clone to the ssd, change the boot sequence to ssd first, emmc second  and forget the the second drive don’t disable, don’t earese, and the ssd boot will work I guess the laptop need to read emmc to let the laptop boot ssd maybe someone have a better solution.

I was about to earese the windows partition on eemc.and keep the UEFI partition there maybe that let the laptop works with ssd  for the first boot

 

Sorry for my English ,

 

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