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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive</H1>
    <B>John Bowden</B> 
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    <I>Wed Sep 26 12:32:47 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Wednesday 26 Sep 2012 13:02:56 Phil wrote:
&gt;<i> Thank you for reading this.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Over the years I've attempted to create a bootable external USB drive,
</I>&gt;<i> but without success. Recently I tried unetbootin which is supposed to
</I>&gt;<i> download and install a Linux distribution of choice and then create a
</I>&gt;<i> bootable disc. It all seems to work well except my laptop won't boot
</I>&gt;<i> from the newly created bootable external drive.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I've occasionally forgotten to unplug my e-book reader and the next time
</I>&gt;<i> that I start the computer I'm informed that &quot;this is not a bootable
</I>&gt;<i> disc.&quot; So, the computer does detect whether an external device is
</I>&gt;<i> bootable or not.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> My question is, how can I determine whether the external drive is indeed
</I>&gt;<i> bootable or not? Is there a bit that's set somewhere if it's bootable?
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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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Registered Linux user number 414240

Guy Faulks the only person to enter the Parliament with honest intentions and 
he was going to blow them up !

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