Re: Booting a USB hard drive

[Klaus Wolf <klaus@linuxwolf.de>]

Sorry,

I think that this is not a debian related problem, The BIOS of
your Laptop has to bi figured to use the USB-Drive for boot.

so long

klaus

Am Sonntag, den 08.05.2011, 21:02 -0700 schrieb Peter Bonucci:
> I have installed Debian onto a USB hard drive and would like to boot to the 
> disk and run Debian.
> 
> When I try to boot directly to this disk, my laptop tries to perform a network 
> boot.  This normal for this laptop when it can't find the boot device.
> 
> The laptop uses the grub2 bootloader.  When I boot the laptop and put grub 
> into the command mode, "ls" does not list the USB drive.
> 
> How can I run Debian from this disk?  I could use a boot CD, but it looks like 
> grub doesn't see the drive.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Peter
> 
>