Q:
Suse booting on external Hard drive problems
I have a Dell 1520 w/ Vista home basic, also an external hard drive. I am trying to use the external HD to boot my Linux on. I installed Suse the first time, and it set up shop on the external, but put the boot section in my MBR on the internal HD on the laptop. Now, not a big deal, I reinstall Suse to the external and point it to create the MBR on that HD, and then just fix the MBR on the laptop, Horay!! I thought. The laptop will boot into vista now but I attach the external HD and it will not even think about booting into Suse, (yes I have the BIOS set to boot from USB and yes I have done it from USB before with another device on this laptop). I am at a loss now and I am not sure what to do at this point. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Securityn00b
Thank you in advance.
Securityn00b
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Feb 17 2009 7:18 PM GMT
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May be instead of installing bootloader on the external disk MBR you installed it on the boot sector of the partition? Or may be Dell wants to boot from an "active partion" and you didn't set the SuSe partition as active (may be this is a longshot, but sometimes Dell is quite particular...)? If you can boot the laptop from some linux "live cd" and inspect your usb-hd with fdisk, you can get some useful information for fixing the problem.
Good luck,
Petko
