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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive</H1>
<B>Phil</B>
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TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive">phil_lor at bigpond.com
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<I>Wed Sep 26 05:02:56 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>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?
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Phil
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