On Thursday 17 September 2009 17:50:08 James Ausmus wrote:

> A basic thing to check - make sure your BIOS is set to boot the removable
> device before the internal HDD - you have to do this with the USB stick
> inserted, and (if the 1000H is anything like the 900A), it will revert to
> internal HDD first any time you boot w/o the USB stick inserted.

Yes, of course I did that every time.

> Oh, and "removable device" is fine - the BIOS doesn't have the smarts to
> know if it's a USB stick, an external USB HDD, an SD card through a USB
> adapter, or ???

Not so. When I tried installing a Ubuntu remix (ugh!) it did recognise that 
as an external hard disk.

-- 
Rgds
Peter

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