linux mint 18 xfce eMMC Boot Faliure

[Schyken]

EDIT: If this is in the wrong forum section, please notify me, and I will move it accordingly. No need to push my content around. I'm willing to comply.

 

So, I have a Dell inspiron 14 3000 Laptop. It's storage device is a 32GB eMMC drive. Normally not an issue, unless I want to install Linux? Apparently the BIOS does not support SD card boot, and I've ended up installing the OS to a 256GB USB 3.0 flash drive. It works flawlessly, sure, but I'd rather not have the operating system OUTSIDE of the computer? Does anyone know of a BIOS that supports eMMC (SD) boot? Or a way that I can boot off of the eMMC drive either way?

[Electronics Wizardy]

does linux show the drive in fdisk or /dev/?

 

What distro and kernel version?

[Schyken]

If I boot from the USB or from a Live Disk, yeah, it shows the drive. Distro is Mint 18 Xfce (I'm sorry I do not know the kernel version)

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 hours ago, Schyken said:

If I boot from the USB or from a Live Disk, yeah, it shows the drive. Distro is Mint 18 Xfce (I'm sorry I do not know the kernel version)

Does that drive show up in the installer?

 

Can you put grub on it?

 

So you can install it on the flash, but it won't boot from there?

[Schyken]

Yeah... I can install it. It just won't boot

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, Schyken said:

Yeah... I can install it. It just won't boot

Is it a boot option?

 

Have you tried a different distro?

 

Have you tried installing grub manually?

[Schyken]

No? SD isn't a boot option? I've said that part, I'm sure. On the other part, no, I've not. This is specifically a BIOS problem. eMMC is recognized as an SD device, and is not a supported boot function. Apparently there's some fun little lock Microsoft has implemented on installing unsigned software as well? I really don't know how I'd go about installing GRUB.

[Electronics Wizardy]

10 hours ago, Schyken said:

No? SD isn't a boot option? I've said that part, I'm sure. On the other part, no, I've not. This is specifically a BIOS problem. eMMC is recognized as an SD device, and is not a supported boot function. Apparently there's some fun little lock Microsoft has implemented on installing unsigned software as well? I really don't know how I'd go about installing GRUB.

Try turing off secure boot. Try turning on legacy boot.

[Schyken]

34 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Try turing off secure boot. Try turning on legacy boot.

I've done that, unfortunately to no avail. I appreciate your help, I'd like to say in the meantime.