Re: Booting from USB drive
- From: Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:15:40 -0600
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:58:15 +0000, Michael staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
My motherboard doesn't support booting from a usb drive (but does from
a usb key.)
Er, WTF? USB Mass Storage devices should all react in the same way to
BIOS requests. That is, it *should not matter* whether the device
you're trying to boot from is a 128M keychain drive or a 128G USB disk.
Maybe you'd better clarify this statement--post the exact error messages
you get, make+model of motherboard, etcetera.
I wondered if it was possible to use the external drive using a boot
manager on the main hard drive to load from the external drive?
The only way this'd be easy is if you had /boot on the internal disk and
/, /usr, /var, etcetera on the USB disk.
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