by jhdodd » Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:00 am
Hi All,
I have just had the same problem on my Amilo Pi 1505, with Fedora 10.
I can boot a live Fedora USB stick.
I have installed Fedora 10 on a Maxtor Basics external USB HDD.
I have set the first boot device to the USB key and it shows "Maxtor Basics ..." (whatever) in the BIOS, so it *does* see the device.
But it simply ignores it as a boot device and either boots the DVD if present (next in the list) or the internal Vista HDD.
When I do boot from the DVD and select recovery mode, it mounts the external drive correctly and I can see everything.
BTW: I have a Dell desktop and it booted straight into Fedora from the external drive, as expected. Yes, it went well because, as it had never booted properly on the notebook, the hardware hadn't been configured, so now it's configured for the desktop - but that's all expected.
I really get the feeling that if I put Grub on the internal drive and point it to the USB drive, it'll work fine, but it would be so much better if it could be completely unintrusive...
Any ideas?
Thanks,
jhdodd