Hello,
I have experience with installing to an external thumb drive, so I guess
I'll reply.
It is easiest to start with a fresh install onto your external drive.
Boot up your machine with the installer, like you were going to install
to your normal internal drive, but during the partitioning phase, leave
the internal drive alone and only work with the external drive.
I always do the partitioning using the custom partitioning scheme
because I don't want to trust it to the installer.
After partitioning, you come to the "Boot Loader Configuration"
https://fermilinux.fnal.gov/distribution/slf-5/installation/boot.loader.configuration.html
Click on "Configure advanced boot loader options" and click "Next"
At the advanced screen, click on "Change Drive Order"
On that screen, rearange the drive order so that your external drive is
first in the list. Click "OK" Then double check to make sure that
"Master Boot Record (MBR)" is checked.
Then click "Next"
And then proceed like a normal install.
Then if your machine is able to boot off an external USB device, it
should be able to boot off the external drive that you just installed on.
Troy
suhaiL khan wrote:
Hello all
Nobody responded to this mail. I also want to know this possibility.
Any help is thankfully appreciated.
--- On *Tue, 25/5/10, Francis Ogula /<[email protected]>/* wrote:
From: Francis Ogula <[email protected]>
Subject: how can I boot sl54 from external hd?
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, 25 May, 2010, 3:07 PM
Hello all, I have just installed SL54 on my transcend external 235
GB hardrive.My internal hd has windows xp. However, My PC bios
cannot boot from USB. I installed grub to the mbr but it was unable
to boot either the linux or windows OS. I tried installing grub on
the external hd linux partition and attemped to boot it on a hp
laptop whose BIOS does support usb booting, but it only went as far
as GRUB_. Is it really possible to boot SL from an external HD? any
help will be appreciated
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Troy Dawson [email protected] (630)840-6468
Fermilab ComputingDivision/LSCS/CSI/USS Group
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