Ubuntu 8.04

[Karl Larsen]

'2+ wrote:
> maybe am misreading somethang but
> my artigo which doesn't have any sort of internal storage is booting
> 8.04 from an external mobile hdd drive using usb for connection
> when i bought the drive to the backups for osx
> the box it came with was warning me that it cannot be used for a boot
> drive ... but i tested anyway and it worked
> oh yes ... grub is also installed to that mobile hdd
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 05:38:33AM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>>   
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>>     I think you should just forget trying to put Ubuntu on a USB 
>> connected hard drive. I say this because I KNOW that the USB drive is 
>> not active until AFTER Grub loads the kernel, and it can't get to the 
>> kernel until the USB drive is active. It is a catch 22 problem and you 
>> will never be able to fix it.
>>
>>     So if you want Ubuntu please install it on your internal hard drive. 
>> This works fine.
>>     
>
>   
    I wonder if you recall if you have set your BIOS to boot from a USB 
port? That *MIGHT* be a way to do it. I will check my BIOS for such a 
setting.

Karl


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