USB Booting FC6

[Cannon, Andrew]

Rupesh,

The way I see it, there are a number of possibilities as to why you couldn't
boot from the USB drive:

1) You installed GRUB on the laptop's internal drive and GRUB hasn't got the
USB drivers to see the USB disk.
2) You are not booting from the USB disk (as set in the BIOS).
3) You are trying to boot from the USB disk as set in the BIOS, but you
haven't got a boot sector set up on the USB disk (possibly because of 1))
and so the system thinks that there is no boot media on the external drive.

What options are you using for the BIOS and where is GRUB installed?

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Rupesh [mailto:rupeshn at gmail.com] 
Sent: 13 November 2006 04:06
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: USB Booting FC6

I have a Dell Laptop Inspiron 700m, I have connected a 20GB Maxtor 3.5" HDD
to this laptop using a Externel USB Case.

In windows I am able to access this HDD, I installed FC6 on this 20GB HDD,
but during booting I choose to boot from this USB Device the system is
unable to boot from this device and the system reboots and goes into
Windows. I dont see any error messages.

Anyway, I can get the FC6 to boot from this USB Device.

--
Rupesh



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