On Mon, 09 May 2011 09:02:45 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote: > On Sunday, May 08, 2011 10:17:47 pm Klaus Wolf wrote:
>> 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. >> > > 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. There shouldn't be any mistery for this. If the BIOS is capable of booting from a USB device but the drive where Debian has been installed is bypassed by the BIOS, I would check that: 1/ GRUB is installed into the MBR of the USB disk. 2/ Partition where "/boot" is installed is marked with the bootable flag (if there is no dedicated partition for "/boot", then "/" should be the one to be marked). 3/ The system can be properly booted from an external source (i.e., using a LiveCD of SuperGrubDisk). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.09.17.25...@gmail.com