Hi, Is this a 4k native drive? (4k physical AND logical sector size) or is it a 512e drive?
In any case, if your system's BIOS does not present it as a boot option, you could try GRUB's USB support, but it is a bit flaky (and doesn't directly support usb3, so depending on how your USB controller is wired, you may not even be able to do that.) --S On Feb 12, 2013, at 7:36 AM, Bob Lemar <foreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, guys > > I got new SEAGATE Expansion USB 3.0 and want to boot linux from it. > > I have successfully booted various linuxes before with different > loaders from USB thumb flashes. But I cannot do it with this external > drive. > > There are three problems: USB3, 4K sectors and >2TB. > > I try grub2 (fedora 17). Grub2 doesn't power on external USB drive. > The drive is spinning up only after some OS is starting to load after > grub2. So grub2 and BIOS don't see external HDD. > > > Can someone point me out: > > 1. either how to turn on external USB3 driver while computer is in grub2? > > 2. or how to load OS with kexec from external USB3 4K sector drive > (from OS which is located at internal HDD)? > > -- > Best regards, Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
