Re: Booting a USB hard drive [SOLVED]

2011-05-17 Thread Camaleón
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

Re: Booting a USB hard drive [SOLVED]

2011-05-16 Thread Peter Bonucci
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

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-13 Thread Camaleón
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.

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-12 Thread Peter Bonucci
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 (¿?) > >

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-12 Thread Camaleón
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

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Bonucci
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

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-11 Thread Camaleón
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

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Bonucci
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

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
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

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-10 Thread Camaleón
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

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-09 Thread Arno Schuring
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

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-09 Thread owens
- 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

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-09 Thread Peter Bonucci
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

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-09 Thread Camaleón
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

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-09 Thread Peter Bonucci
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

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-08 Thread Klaus Wolf
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

Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-08 Thread 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 bo