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Hello ppl i am new here and new to linux.
I have problem with SUSE 11 booting from external HDD. All works ok but i cant automatic boot from ext HDD because when i start my laptop, set up temporaly boot device, i got blinking _ in left corner of my monitor. BUT
When i start live CD and then choose "Boot from HDD" then is all ok. My question is: How i can make automatic SUSE boot when i plug in my ext HDD?
Hello ppl i am new here and new to linux.
I have problem with SUSE 11 booting from external HDD. All works ok but i cant automatic boot from ext HDD because when i start my laptop, set up temporaly boot device, i got blinking _ in left corner of my monitor. BUT
When i start live CD and then choose "Boot from HDD" then is all ok. My question is: How i can make automatic SUSE boot when i plug in my ext HDD?
You must configure your BIOS settings. In BIOS, enable the option "Boot from other device". This problem is related to BIOS only, as it failed to recognise the device during the initial boot stage.
Been (more than) a few weeks since I did a openSuSE install, but I can't believe a normal install onto /dev/sdb (or whatever) wouldn't work same as internal. Just make sure the boot loader gets written correctly to the external.
For the first, do we understand that neither your BIOS, not the one-time-boot menu that you can open at POST by pressing the correct key, will let you boot from a USB-HDD or USB-CDROM? Exactly what choices do you have?
Secondly, when you open a terminal in SUSE and as "su" type the command "fdisk -l" do you see a boot flag "*" in the SUSE partition table? It might be opposite the "/"(root) partition, opposite an extended partition or opposite a "/boot" partition depending on how things are set up.
Posting the results of "fdisk -l" will let us all have a look at the partitions.
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000dfdb4
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 34443 276655365 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 34443 34705 2104484 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 34705 38913 33808792 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0a0009ff
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 2805 22531131 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 2806 14592 94679077+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 2806 14592 94679046 e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
EDIT: I try change boot priority (not one-time) but same problem.
my noob opinion is thats something wrong with GRUB. Because LiveCD stop working when i get message " Grub stage loaded.."
1st question answer: I have option for boot from HDD,DVD ROM,USB-HDD,PCI-LAN (also USB legacy is enabled)
At POST all disks are recognized
2nd answer: USB-HDD was NTFS (because i have XP on my internal HDD). I run openSUSE install throught LiveCD (35gb partition for SUSE) rest of partitions are empty.
Get booted (from the liveCD), go to sf.net and download and run the bootinfoscript - with the external disk plugged in.
That will generate a RESULTS.txt - post it here, that will show us what is bootable.
Now we know that the BIOS should boot the USB-HDD.
Open a terminal as "su" and type "kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst" to open the grub file and then post the results.
I expect the correct listing would be "root (hd0,1)", that is, since grub begins to count at 0, the first HDD and the second partition. I am not altogether sure if "mbr" would work as well as "root"
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