Dendrobatus Azureus<p>I have a lot of interesting news for your reading pleasure </p><p>You are seeing it correctly; I have been able to configure the old obsolete notebook computer, to boot from a live ENV: which is very familiar to me, then configured it to access all of my rEFInd enabled SSDs apart from my m.2 SSDs </p><p>The m.2 SSDs still need the piece of extra Hardware before I can use them on my USB3 SSD HDD 📥 trays</p><p>Now to properly describe the problem that arose;</p><p>I've installed rEFInd on all my storage devices. I naively expected my single and only EFI Computing device not to fail now, even though the device had run way too hot for a very long time. The miniPC was also taking slightly more and more time before it went past the EFI sequence of the POST.</p><p>AND SINCE IT'S MADE BY GIGABYTE OF COURSE IT FAILED EARLY! </p><p>When I put one of the devices in the old notebook naturally it failed to boot. What also occurred, and this was frightening, when I booted it from a USB device I still could not access the rEFInd configured SSD installed in the computer. Even though the drive was detected fine in the BIOS, it looked like the data was behind a wall of EFI. </p><p>Instead of panicking I just left everything for a day or two. I considered it like an aircraft that was crashing it couldn't get worse I still had backups Round Robin, in different places </p><p>Today I did the following, I removed the SSD from the old notebook. I took two other SSDs which are also EFI configured, inserted them in one of my USB3 trays, booted the machine from another USB device, and then calmly went to work.</p><p>It turned out this Old Goat of a computer will, not access a device which has EFI software and it's boot section. <br>If the devices come In from the USB buss, the same Old Goat 🐐 becomes a Gorgeous Sheep and accesses them just fine.</p><p>Go figure!</p><p>I did not look up why, it's not interesting, all I want to know, is that I now have access to my SSD & HDD devices, my data on the Old Goat 🐐 which is now a Gorgeous Sheep 🐏 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hardware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/failure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>failure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Gigabyte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gigabyte</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a></p>