Booting from a USB Drive

[Ben Trussell]

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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> Stephen
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