The problem is, your laptop does not support booting from the usb (keychain/drive) . That essentially means, that the usb ports and drives will not be initialized by the bios during the boot process, otherwise, look here: http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/USB_Based_FAQ and here: http://www.simonf.com/usb/
The 2 documents linked to, overlap with your usb booting question and how to configure grub to boot, chain boot from the usb drive. Making those changes permanent is another question entirely. you need to unpack your boot cd onto your hdd, make your changes to the boot procedure, than re-master the boot disk again into a new iso, and burn it on a new disk. Then you would end up with a boot disk that boots directly onto your usb hdd. Cheers Szemir On September 8, 2007 01:12, Andrew Anderson wrote: > Can anyone assist me here? > > > > I have an older emachines 5310 laptop that has a fried hd controller. It > will run fine otherwise. > > > > I have been able to install FiestyFawn onto a removable drive (usb) using > the standard install method. > > > > Of course when the machine reboots it cannot find anything and quits. > > > > The bios will not let me boot from USB (only CD). My intention was to try > and use a CD based grub to boot the install that's on the removeable disk. > I have tried using the supergrub CD and various grub commands to get this > to work but I cannot even get it to recognize the drive to tell it were > root is (my knowledge of GRUB is laughable at best). > > > > Will this likely work? Can the grub somehow mount the external drive to > boot from it? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
