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Old November 26th 06, 04:58 PM posted to comp.hardware
Michael
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Default Booting from USB drive

I have just bought an external hard drive and would like to play around
with some linux distros. My motherboard doesn't support booting from a usb
drive (but does from a usb key. I wondered if it was possible to use the
external drive using a boot manager on the main hard drive to load from the
external drive?

Thanks for your help

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Old November 27th 06, 05:40 PM posted to comp.hardware
Mike Walsh
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Default Booting from USB drive


Michael wrote:

I have just bought an external hard drive and would like to play around
with some linux distros. My motherboard doesn't support booting from a usb
drive (but does from a usb key.


I have not booted from a USB device, but I know that a USB flash drive appears to the BIOS (if it supports booting from a USB device) as a hard drive. I had assumed that if you could boot from one you could boot from the other.

I wondered if it was possible to use the
external drive using a boot manager on the main hard drive to load from the
external drive?


Usually the BIOS must recognize the device that the OS is loaded from. This is not required, and you could load the OS from a USB device if the boot manager installs a USB driver.

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