[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive

Wed Sep 26 12:32:47 CEST 2012

On Wednesday 26 Sep 2012 13:02:56 Phil wrote:
+> 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?
+
+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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