[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive

Thu Sep 27 01:21:10 CEST 2012

On 26/09/12 20:32, John Bowden wrote:
+>
+> 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.
+
+Thanks everyone for your replies,
+
+I think there might be a hardware issue somewhere. The laptop detects 
+USB sticks (and e-book readers) and reports that the device isn't 
+bootable however the USB hard drive is simply ignored. So there must be 
+some subtle difference between the mechanical drive and a USB stick.
+
+The Internet is awash with tutorials on how to create a bootable 
+external drive but, in my case, unless the external drive is mounted 
+it's not detected and the BIOS is set to boot from an external drive.
+
+I'm reluctant to try my drive on someone else's computer because if 
+anything goes wrong, even six years later, it will be my fault.
+
+I don't think Tuxboot or DD would offer a solution.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Phil
+