Booting from a USB Drive

[Stephen]

its an external usb to 2.5" pata drive enclosure and its a chip built
into the usb-sata bridge.

most annoying.

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Ben Trussell <azlobo73 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If its a Sandisk Cruzer there is a utility to remove that infernal
> "CD" mount.  check here:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=sandisk+cruzer+u3+removal
>
> http://u3.sandisk.com/launchpadremoval.htm
>
> and possibly (possibly) helpful:
>
> http://u3-tool.sourceforge.net/
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have an external drive that has the same issue. in my case there is
>> a small "firmware" that resides on the USB-PATA bridge that has about
>> 3-400 MB of stuff on it and mounts as a CD. this definitely fouled all
>> my attempts at booting to the device.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com> wrote:
>>> I got a new machine which (of course) has Windows pre-installed and
>>> I'm not ready to dump it entirely just yet so in the meantime, I built
>>> out a complete Arch Linux 64-bit system on a portable USB external
>>> drive.  I also used or tried to use grub to set it up to boot.  During
>>> the original settup session, it appeared to do all this OK but I can't
>>> get the laptop to recognize or boot from this device.  I did not
>>> modify the master boot record on my laptop; instead, I figured on
>>> using the boot menu on the laptop to choose the USB drive; this method
>>> works beautifully with an ISO image I burned to a small thumbdrive but
>>> I cannot do the same with my larger USB portable drive on which I
>>> installed Arch Linux.  Do I have to do anything else to make this
>>> thing bootable?
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>>
>>
>> --
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>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>
>> Stephen
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-- 
A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen