[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive

[Phil]

On 26/09/12 20:32, John Bowden wrote:
>
> 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.

Thanks everyone for your replies,

I think there might be a hardware issue somewhere. The laptop detects 
USB sticks (and e-book readers) and reports that the device isn't 
bootable however the USB hard drive is simply ignored. So there must be 
some subtle difference between the mechanical drive and a USB stick.

The Internet is awash with tutorials on how to create a bootable 
external drive but, in my case, unless the external drive is mounted 
it's not detected and the BIOS is set to boot from an external drive.

I'm reluctant to try my drive on someone else's computer because if 
anything goes wrong, even six years later, it will be my fault.

I don't think Tuxboot or DD would offer a solution.

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Regards,
Phil