[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive solved

[Renaud (Ron) Olgiati]

On Saturday 29 Sep 2012 08:44 my mailbox was graced by a message from John 
Bowden who wrote:
> > dd was the answer. I now have a bootable external hard drive and a
> > bootable USB memory stick. Of course, I should have tried dd earlier.

> Glad you got it working with DD. The soft reboot trick to give an ext usb
> hd  or dvd time to initalize is handy to keep in mind.

This is probably why the BIOS of my recent motherboard has a waiting time of 
10 seconds before booting,  to give the USB (and other) drives time to come up 
to speed. 

Cheers,
 
Ron.
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