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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2012-September/008779.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2012-September/008779.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..70238f815 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2012-September/008779.html @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20Bootable%20external%20drive&In-Reply-To=%3C50661B44.7040205%40bigpond.com%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="008777.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="008780.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive</H1> + <B>Phil</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20Bootable%20external%20drive&In-Reply-To=%3C50661B44.7040205%40bigpond.com%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive">phil_lor at bigpond.com + </A><BR> + <I>Fri Sep 28 23:48:52 CEST 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008777.html">[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008780.html">[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive solved +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8779">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8779">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8779">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8779">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>On 27/09/12 20:55, John Bowden wrote: +><i> +</I>><i> You might find the ext hd is a bit slow at initalizing and spinning up to +</I>><i> speed, a usb drive does not have to spin up disks. Try powering on the laptop +</I>><i> and if it does not see the ext hd do a soft reboot (ALT CTRL + DEL). +</I>><i> Also make sure the bios is set to boot ext usb first before looking at other +</I>><i> boot devices. If you have the ext hd plugged in and powered up while in the +</I>><i> bios screen it might offer you the ext hd IF you are very lucky! +</I> +Thanks again John, + +I've solved the external USB hard drive boot problem and it's +embarrassing to admit that it was a simple setting in the BIOS. + +The hard drive contained a live distribution but saved data is not +persistent between boots and only a small section of the disc is +available anyway. + +So I partition the external hard drive and downloaded the iso file +again, now the blasted DVD drive has died completely (it was always +flaky from new) so I'm thwarted again; maybe an external USB DVD drive +would be the answer? + +Not to be outwitted by a dumb machine, I created a bootable USB memory +stick, again with unetbootin. This time a message is displayed that +reads something to the effect that the external device should be removed +to continue the boot process. + +There aren't any more hidden BIOS settings, that I can see, so it might +be the end of the line for this project. + +-- +Regards, +Phil +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008777.html">[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008780.html">[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive solved +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8779">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8779">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8779">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8779">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |