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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive</H1>
<B>vze1pbnt at verizon.net</B>
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<I>Wed Sep 26 20:18:04 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>><i>Thank you for reading this.
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</I>><i>Over the years I've attempted to create a bootable external USB drive,
</I>><i>but without success. Recently I tried unetbootin which is supposed to
</I>><i>download and install a Linux distribution of choice and then create a
</I>><i>bootable disc. It all seems to work well except my laptop won't boot
</I>><i>from the newly created bootable external drive.
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</I>><i>I've occasionally forgotten to unplug my e-book reader and the next time
</I>><i>that I start the computer I'm informed that "this is not a bootable
</I>><i>disc." So, the computer does detect whether an external device is
</I>><i>bootable or not.
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</I>><i>My question is, how can I determine whether the external drive is indeed
</I>><i>bootable or not? Is there a bit that's set somewhere if it's bootable?
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</I>><i>Regards,
</I>><i>Phil
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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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