[gentoo-user] Booting an exernal usb drive from grub

2009-08-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
My server box died last week, and, as it was about ten years old, I decided to replace it. My wife and I opened the case and removed the hard drive (A major undertaking for us, I might add). We hooked the old hard drive up to a hard drive enclosure and plugged it via USB into a new computer we

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting an exernal usb drive from grub

2009-08-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Michael Sullivanmsulli1...@gmail.com wrote: My server box died last week, and, as it was about ten years old, I decided to replace it. My wife and I opened the case and removed the hard drive (A major undertaking for us, I might add). We hooked the old hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting an exernal usb drive from grub

2009-08-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 16:38 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Michael Sullivanmsulli1...@gmail.com wrote: My server box died last week, and, as it was about ten years old, I decided to replace it. My wife and I opened the case and removed the hard drive (A major

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting an exernal usb drive from grub

2009-08-12 Thread kyle . bader
to init. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:49:51 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Booting an exernal usb drive from grub On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 16:38 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting an exernal usb drive from grub

2009-08-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Michael Sullivanmsulli1...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 16:38 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Michael Sullivanmsulli1...@gmail.com wrote: My server box died last week, and, as it was about ten years old, I decided to

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting an exernal usb drive from grub

2009-08-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 17:11 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Michael Sullivanmsulli1...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 16:38 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Michael Sullivanmsulli1...@gmail.com wrote: My server box died last

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting an exernal usb drive from grub

2009-08-12 Thread Stroller
On 12 Aug 2009, at 22:49, Michael Sullivan wrote: ... Usually in the boot order section of BIOS one of those choices will be removable disk or external device or something like that. That will typically boot your USB disk. Nope. The only things it has are floppy boot (It doesn't even have

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting an exernal usb drive from grub

2009-08-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 23:22 +0100, Stroller wrote: On 12 Aug 2009, at 22:49, Michael Sullivan wrote: ... Usually in the boot order section of BIOS one of those choices will be removable disk or external device or something like that. That will typically boot your USB disk. Nope.

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting an exernal usb drive from grub

2009-08-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Michael Sullivanmsulli1...@gmail.com wrote: We can't take the hard drive out and put a different one in. I strongly implied that my wife and I are clumsy. We don't have the fine motor skills needed to put a hard drive into a computer. She barely had enough

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting an exernal usb drive from grub

2009-08-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 18:51 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Michael Sullivanmsulli1...@gmail.com wrote: We can't take the hard drive out and put a different one in. I strongly implied that my wife and I are clumsy. We don't have the fine motor skills needed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting an exernal usb drive from grub

2009-08-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Michael Sullivanmsulli1...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 18:51 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Michael Sullivanmsulli1...@gmail.com wrote: We can't take the hard drive out and put a different one in. I strongly implied