Booting from a USB Drive

[Stephen]

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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Stephen