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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 -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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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. -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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