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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive</H1>
    <B>Phil</B> 
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    <I>Fri Sep 28 23:48:52 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 27/09/12 20:55, John Bowden wrote:
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</I>&gt;<i> You might find the ext hd is a bit slow at initalizing and spinning up to
</I>&gt;<i> speed, a usb drive does not have to spin up disks. Try powering on the laptop
</I>&gt;<i> and if it does not see the ext hd do a soft reboot (ALT CTRL + DEL).
</I>&gt;<i> Also make sure the bios is set to boot ext usb first before looking at other
</I>&gt;<i> boot devices. If you have the ext hd plugged in and powered up while in the
</I>&gt;<i> bios screen it might offer you the ext hd IF you are very lucky!
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Thanks again John,

I've solved the external USB hard drive boot problem and it's 
embarrassing to admit that it was a simple setting in the BIOS.

The hard drive contained a live distribution but saved data is not 
persistent between boots and only a small section of the disc is 
available anyway.

So I partition the external hard drive and downloaded the iso file 
again, now the blasted DVD drive has died completely (it was always 
flaky from new) so I'm thwarted again; maybe an external USB DVD drive 
would be the answer?

Not to be outwitted by a dumb machine, I created a bootable USB memory 
stick, again with unetbootin. This time a message is displayed that 
reads something to the effect that the external device should be removed 
to continue the boot process.

There aren't any more hidden BIOS settings, that I can see, so it might 
be the end of the line for this project.

-- 
Regards,
Phil
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