USB Booting FC6

Rupesh rupeshn at gmail.com
Tue Nov 14 15:12:49 UTC 2006


On 11/14/06, Cannon, Andrew <Andrew.Cannon at amecnnc.com> wrote:
>
> 1) You installed GRUB on the laptop's internal drive and GRUB hasn't got the
> USB drivers to see the USB disk.

No it's installed on Maxtor, I thought I had this problem first time,
so i re-installed the OS to verify the above but it didn't work the
2nd time.

> 2) You are not booting from the USB disk (as set in the BIOS).

I use F12 option and manually choose to boot from the Maxtor (USB DISK).

> 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?
>

Answer as in Point 2.

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Rupesh




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