newer machines should be able to boot directly to USB hdd just fine...
just never have had a drive that really worked with that.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Steve Holmes <
steve@holmesgrown.com> wrote:
> That's rather annoying when some drive manufacturer forces us to leave
> their junk on the drive when we wish to do otherwise with it.
> Actually, my drive came out of an old laptop and I stuck it inside a
> portable drive enclosure so I would think we should be able to boot
> with it. I used grub to make this disk bootable or at least attempt
> to do so.
>
> I might have to do a grub-install to the /dev/sda MBR but I hesitate
> to do so at the moment.
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 07:25:08AM -0700, Stephen 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@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
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