[Mageia-discuss] Mageia-discuss Digest, Vol 25, Issue 30

[Vilhjalmur Ingi]

Obrigado Telma, mas sem problema.

O "Rei dos Caletos" tem "Home delivery" so I order plenty of chicken.
By end of the week I am sure I wil be able to walk to the supermarket, 
thank god I still have the crutches (moletas).
Stefan comes to Recife 3. de Outubro and stays for 3 weeks.
By then I must be totally OK.  (Mais ou menos ;-)  )

Ingi


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>     1. Re: Bootable external drive (John Bowden)
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> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:55:47 +0100
> From: John Bowden<led43john at googlemail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive
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> On Thursday 27 Sep 2012 09:21:10 Phil wrote:
>> 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.
> You might find the ext hd is a bit slow at initalizing and spinning up to
> speed, a usb drive does not have to spin up disks. Try powering on the laptop
> and if it does not see the ext hd do a soft reboot (ALT CTRL + DEL).
> Also make sure the bios is set to boot ext usb first before looking at other
> boot devices. If you have the ext hd plugged in and powered up while in the
> bios screen it might offer you the ext hd IF you are very lucky!
> Regards John (Led43_???)