[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive

[John Bowden]

On Wednesday 26 Sep 2012 13:02:56 Phil wrote:
> Thank you for reading this.
> 
> Over the years I've attempted to create a bootable external USB drive,
> but without success. Recently I tried unetbootin which is supposed to
> download and install a Linux distribution of choice and then create a
> bootable disc. It all seems to work well except my laptop won't boot
> from the newly created bootable external drive.
> 
> I've occasionally forgotten to unplug my e-book reader and the next time
> that I start the computer I'm informed that "this is not a bootable
> disc." So, the computer does detect whether an external device is
> bootable or not.
> 
> My question is, how can I determine whether the external drive is indeed
> bootable or not? Is there a bit that's set somewhere if it's bootable?

As far as I know unenetbooting does not work with our iso's, its a long time 
erm undocumented feature ;) you can use the DD command, there is even a DD for 
widoz.
Regards John (Led43_xxx)
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