[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive

Wed Sep 26 05:02:56 CEST 2012

Thank you for reading this.
+
+Over the years I've attempted to create a bootable external USB drive, 
+but without success. Recently I tried unetbootin which is supposed to 
+download and install a Linux distribution of choice and then create a 
+bootable disc. It all seems to work well except my laptop won't boot 
+from the newly created bootable external drive.
+
+I've occasionally forgotten to unplug my e-book reader and the next time 
+that I start the computer I'm informed that "this is not a bootable 
+disc." So, the computer does detect whether an external device is 
+bootable or not.
+
+My question is, how can I determine whether the external drive is indeed 
+bootable or not? Is there a bit that's set somewhere if it's bootable?
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Phil
+