On Mon, 16 May 2011 13:27:02 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote:
> On Friday, May 13, 2011 08:25:43 am Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>> 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:-)
>>
>> ¹
On Friday, May 13, 2011 08:25:43 am Camaleón wrote:
> If I were you, I'll proceed as follows:
>
> - Remove the laptop stock hard disk (just to prevent rewriting the MBR of
> the wrng device)
>
> - And then try a complete reinstall of GRUB (whatever version you prefer,
> you can first give a try
On Thu, 12 May 2011 12:55:28 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote:
> On Thursday, May 12, 2011 04:38:18 am Camaleón wrote:
>> I don't like that error :-/
>>
>> ***
>> 25 : Disk read error
>> This error is returned if there is a disk read error when trying to
>> probe or read data from a particular disk.
On Thursday, May 12, 2011 04:38:18 am Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2011 15:30:22 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote:
> > On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:04:48 pm Camaleón wrote:
> >> Okay, I've carefully read all of your tests, so let's recap:
> >>
> >> - SGD (1.98x) cannot detect the USB drive (¿?)
> >
On Wed, 11 May 2011 15:30:22 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:04:48 pm Camaleón wrote:
>>
>> Okay, I've carefully read all of your tests, so let's recap:
>>
>> - SGD (1.98x) cannot detect the USB drive (¿?)
>> - SGD (0.99x) can detect the USB drive
>> - GRUB is insta
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:04:48 pm Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2011 00:54:03 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote:
> > On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 05:13:46 am Camaleón wrote:
> (...)
>
> >> > Under SuperGrubDisk, "List devices/partitions", Grub doesn't see the
> >> > USB drive. None of the other opti
On Wed, 11 May 2011 00:54:03 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 05:13:46 am Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>> > Under SuperGrubDisk, "List devices/partitions", Grub doesn't see the
>> > USB drive. None of the other options boot the drive.
>> >
>> > Selecting the experimental USB sup
On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 05:13:46 am Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 09 May 2011 13:21:20 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote:
> > On Monday, May 09, 2011 10:25:44 am Camaleón wrote:
> >> > Booting a USB drive when the drive and computer don't cooperate is an
> >> > old problem. People solved it under Debian yea
On Lu, 09 mai 11, 14:31:35, ow...@netptc.net wrote:
>
> Peter
> IIRC this WD is "special" (in a not-nice way). In order to use it on
> some O/S other than windoz you have to remove the hidden partition
> with WDs "special" program and reformat the drive.
Maybe a 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX
On Mon, 09 May 2011 13:21:20 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote:
> On Monday, May 09, 2011 10:25:44 am Camaleón wrote:
>> > 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 sear
Peter Bonucci (peter.bonu...@verizon.net on 2011-05-09 13:21 -0700):
> On Monday, May 09, 2011 10:25:44 am Camaleón wrote:
> > 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 proble
- Original Message -
From: Peter Bonucci
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: 5/9/2011 4:02:45 PM
Subject: 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 o
On Monday, May 09, 2011 10:25:44 am Camaleón wrote:
> 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 bo
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 m
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
i
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 a
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 bo
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