On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 21:37 -0700, Jon Drukman wrote: > Antonio Montagnani wrote: > > Jon Drukman said the following on 04/09/2005 19:42: > > > >> my system has several internal disks which are all formatted as NTFS. > >> i have an external USB2 disk that i could use for fedora, if i can > >> figure out how to boot it. my motherboard/bios is too old to boot > >> directly off of a USB disk. can i use some sort of boot CD or > >> bootmanager to start fedora from an external drive? how would i > >> achieve this? > >> > >> let me know, thanks. > >> -jsd- > >> > > have a look at http://www.simonf.com/usb/ > > > > http://www.vigla.eclipse.co.uk/ > > > > and let me know.... > > It works here > > i followed the instructions on the pdf at the second link and the usb > disk does not show up when booted from the grub cdrom image so i guess > my bios is not going to cooperate, at least not for booting. > > the weird thing though is if i boot the FC4 install DVD, it says > "loading usb storage driver" and i see the external disk flash a few > times like it's being accessed. however if i go to manual partition > with disk druid, i don't see the drive. this leads me to think that > maybe it could work if i knew how to tell the installer to look at that > disk. I've done this ages ago, so pardon if this is no more applicable. Try setting on the kernel boot line : expert. I think this was what made it also probe usb drives. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:33:39 up 5:02, 8 users, load average: 1.15, 0.76, 0.40
