[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive

Wed Sep 26 20:18:04 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
+>
+
+Have never had a problem doing this.  CDs and DVDs I have burned from iso files have always been bootable.
+I would say check you bios if you were not getting that bootable disc message.  So I think the place to look at is setting up
+writing the disk or USB stick.   I did have one friend who had this problem.  When I checked his boot disk it had one file on
+it, with the extension of iso.  But check you bios just to be sure.
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