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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Bootable external drive solved</H1>
    <B>Renaud (Ron) Olgiati</B> 
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    <I>Sat Sep 29 15:00:31 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Saturday 29 Sep 2012 08:44 my mailbox was graced by a message from John 
Bowden who wrote:
&gt;<i> &gt; dd was the answer. I now have a bootable external hard drive and a
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; bootable USB memory stick. Of course, I should have tried dd earlier.
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&gt;<i> Glad you got it working with DD. The soft reboot trick to give an ext usb
</I>&gt;<i> hd  or dvd time to initalize is handy to keep in mind.
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This is probably why the BIOS of my recent motherboard has a waiting time of 
10 seconds before booting,  to give the USB (and other) drives time to come up 
to speed. 

Cheers,
 
Ron.
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