USB DEVICES ARE NOT SHOW UP IN THE START MENU

[Sankaranarayanan]

Mine is a Macbook Pro.Now it is loaded with LinuxMint-21.2 cinnamon and is working well. But now the EFI setting could not be accessed, nor the USB devices are not showing up, when the Opt key is pressed while starting The OS was updated two or three times. How can I access the start manager or to atleast show up the USB devices?
How to cancel all updates made?

 

[Condobloke]

G'day Sankaranarayana, Welcome to Linux.org

Please do not double post.

What do you mean by the efi 'setting'

What is the opt key?

There will be people here who are not familiar with keys on a macbook pro......including myself.

If the system was updated 2 or 3 times.....it would NOT be a geat idea to attempt to cancel them. Why would you wish to do that?

 

[Sankaranarayanan]

G'day Sankaranarayana, Welcome to Linux.org

Please do not double post.

What do you mean by the efi 'setting'

What is the opt key?

There will be people here who are not familiar with keys on a macbook pro......including myself.

If the system was updated 2 or 3 times.....it would NOT be a geat idea to attempt to cancel them. Why would you wish to do that?

There is no BIOS setting in Mac books, instead it is provided with UEFI
OPT key is equivalent to Alt key. Sir, the USB device (pen drive) is not seen in the boot option. If the updated items were cancelled, perhaps the key bindings will again work to show up the boot devices.Macbook pro is provided with Apple international keyboard which is not a part of Linux Mint
OR what is a solution to reboot via USB

 

[Brickwizard]

Apple international keyboard

This should not be a problem, drivers should have automatically installed to check you could run modprobe hid_apple and see what the report says.

the USB device (pen drive) is not seen in the boot option.

There have been several different ways to open boot order on macs over the years, if the machine is a mac silicon [newer than june 2020] then you open the boot order by pressing and holding the power on button, and a boot option screen will appear.
If a device is not showing, then check the connections, if its a ISO installation pen-drive, make sure it has been made as a bootable drive.

 

[Sankaranarayanan]

SYSTEM REPORT

System:

Kernel: 5.15.0-87-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.8.4

tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy

Machine:

Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookPro11,4 v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> Chassis:

type: 9 v: Mac-06F11FD93F0323C5 serial: <superuser required>

Mobo: Apple model: Mac-06F11FD93F0323C5 v: MacBookPro11,4 serial: <superuser required>

UEFI: Apple v: 481.0.0.0.0 date: 01/12/2023

Battery:

ID-1: BAT0 charge: 36.8 Wh (38.6%) condition: 95.4/95.4 Wh (100.0%) volts: 10.0 min: 11.3

model: SMP bq20z451 serial: N/A status: Discharging

CPU:

Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-4770HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell rev: 1 cache:

L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB

Speed (MHz): avg: 2914 high: 3065 min/max: 800/3400 cores: 1: 3005 2: 2993 3: 3024 4: 2994

5: 3065 6: 2993 7: 2993 8: 2246 bogomips: 35118

Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx

Graphics:

Device-1: Intel Crystal Well Integrated Graphics vendor: Apple driver: i915 v: kernel ports:

active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0d26

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa

gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1

Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2880x1800 s-dpi: 96

Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: Apple Color LCD res: 2880x1800 dpi: 221 diag: 390mm (15.4")

OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1

direct render: Yes

Audio:

Device-1: Intel Crystal Well HD Audio vendor: Apple driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel

bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:0d0c

Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel

bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8c20

Device-3: Broadcom 720p FaceTime HD Camera driver: N/A pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1

bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:1570

Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-87-generic running: yes

Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes

Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes

Network:

Device-1: Broadcom BCM43602 802.11ac Wireless LAN SoC vendor: Apple driver: brcmfmac v: kernel

pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:43ba

IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>

Bluetooth:

Device-1: Apple Bluetooth Host Controller type: USB driver: btusb,hid-generic,usbhid

bus-ID: 1-8:3 chip-ID: 05ac:8290

Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block:

hardware: no software: yes address: <filter>

Drives:

Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 46.57 GiB (19.5%)

ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Intel model: SSDPEKKF256G8L size: 238.47 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s

lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 35.9 C

Partition:

ID-1: / size: 233.18 GiB used: 46.56 GiB (20.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2

ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 16.2 MiB (3.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1

Swap:

ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 1024 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile

USB:

Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 14 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s

chip-ID: 1d6b:0002

Device-1: 1-5:2 info: USB OPTICAL MOUSE type: Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid rev: 1.1

speed: 1.5 Mb/s chip-ID: 275d:0ba6

Device-2: 1-8:3 info: Apple Bluetooth Host Controller type: Keyboard,Mouse,Bluetooth

driver: btusb,hid-generic,usbhid rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 05ac:8290

Device-3: 1-12:4 info: Apple Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad type: HID,Keyboard,Mouse

driver: apple,bcm5974,usbhid rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 05ac:0274

Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003

Device-1: 2-4:2 info: Apple Internal Memory Card Reader type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage

rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 05ac:8406

Sensors:

System Temperatures: cpu: 93.0 C pch: 55.0 C mobo: N/A

Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A

Repos:

Packages: 2534 apt: 2525 flatpak: 9

No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list

1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com victoria main upstream import backport

2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse

3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse

4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse

Info:

Processes: 276 Uptime: 32m Memory: 15.49 GiB used: 2.44 GiB (15.8%) Init: systemd v: 249

runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12 Client: Unknown python3.10 client inxi: 3.3.13

 

[Sankaranarayanan]

Linux Mint 21.02 installed from a bootable pen drive. After the installation, the same method could not be repeated as the USB device does not show up.I could not access the bios/UEFI settings. That is the defficulty

 

[Sankaranarayanan]

It is Mac book-Pro 11-V4