Re: Booting a USB hard drive [SOLVED]
On Mon, 16 May 2011 13:27:02 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote:
> On Friday, May 13, 2011 08:25:43 am Camaleón wrote: <snip>
(...)
>> Finally, if all of the above fails, well, consider using the "WD My
>> Passport Essential" USB disk as a paperweight... errr, I mean, as a
>> backup storage unit O:-)
>>
>> ¹http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html#features
>>
>> P.S. It won't neither hurt that you look for any available firmware
>> upgrade for you USB device or even for the BIOS of your computer. Also,
>> contacting WD on this matter can make you lose a bit of time but it
>> can't make any bad :-)
>
> After all of the previous work, I decided that GRUB wasn't going to
> work. I tried Plop and it didn't work either.
Wow... I would start thinking the USB disk has some kind of specific
problem to hold the bootstrap code :-/
> I decided to use a separate USB device for the /boot partition and
> reinstall Debian. The "WD My Passport Essential" USB disk now holds a
> complete Debian installation and I can run it without problems.
>
> Camaleón, thank you for all of the help.
You're welcome, but it's a pity having to depend on another external
source to hold the bootloader just because manufacturers provide such
weird devices with undocumented "features" ;-(
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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