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+ <B>John Bowden</B>
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+ TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive">led43john at googlemail.com
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+ <I>Wed Sep 26 12:32:47 CEST 2012</I>
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+<PRE>On Wednesday 26 Sep 2012 13:02:56 Phil wrote:
+&gt;<i> Thank you for reading this.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Over the years I've attempted to create a bootable external USB drive,
+</I>&gt;<i> but without success. Recently I tried unetbootin which is supposed to
+</I>&gt;<i> download and install a Linux distribution of choice and then create a
+</I>&gt;<i> bootable disc. It all seems to work well except my laptop won't boot
+</I>&gt;<i> from the newly created bootable external drive.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I've occasionally forgotten to unplug my e-book reader and the next time
+</I>&gt;<i> that I start the computer I'm informed that &quot;this is not a bootable
+</I>&gt;<i> disc.&quot; So, the computer does detect whether an external device is
+</I>&gt;<i> bootable or not.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> My question is, how can I determine whether the external drive is indeed
+</I>&gt;<i> bootable or not? Is there a bit that's set somewhere if it's bootable?
+</I>
+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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+
+Guy Faulks the only person to enter the Parliament with honest intentions and
+he was going to blow them up !
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