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    CF-19 MK6 won't boot Linux off WWAN PCI port...

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by thewanderlustking, Jan 21, 2022.

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    Okay using a mini pic-e to USB 3.0 adapter in the WWAN port, and I can't get this to boot off of that. It is possible I have never tried on this particular machine before, but my MK1, and I believe my MK5 both had no issues doing this.

    Do I need to put the WWAN card back in, disable it, remove it, then put this PCI-E adapter in and re-enable it?

    I feel like either I am missing something obvious, or this particular bios is actualy preventing this. Anytime I select anything other than the hard drive in the boot order, I get a message that "this drive doesn't support password" but no passwords are set anywhere... I am confused!

    I have spent about an hour just trying to do this, so pretty sure I covered all the normal bases.
     
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    Alright partial success. It might have been a noob mistake. I suspect it is a 32 bit Mint on stick in the WWAN port. I made a new 64bit and put it in a thumb drive on the back port, booted right up.

    I have not tried moving that thumb drive to the WWAN adapter, that will be next/tomorrow.
     
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    Well I put 64 bit on a thumb drive, popped it in the WWAN slot, and it loaded right up. Once. Now it won't load off the WWAN slot either.
     
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