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Re: Booting a USB hard drive



On Sunday, May 08, 2011 10:17:47 pm Klaus Wolf wrote:
> 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

The BIOS of this computer boots from all of my other USB drives.  The problem 
is this particular drive model (Western Digital My Passport Essential.)

Booting a USB drive when the drive and computer don't cooperate is an old 
problem.  People solved it under Debian years ago.  I just don't know how they 
solved it and search engines didn't help.

Peter


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