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Old 06-15-2011, 12:57 PM   #1
jaypatience
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1TB Segate Usb External Hard Drive


I have a 1TB usb External Hard drive (Segate), I would like to install linx on that drive. I tried red Hat it does not find hard drive. I run open suse, I partition the hard drive. After installation of disk 1 it reboots, at that point it does not go to usb external drive. Any Help Please!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Try booting from usb in the BIOS.
 
Old 06-15-2011, 03:32 PM   #3
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Many systems that can boot from a usb device may show the device in a few places in bios. One is boot order and the other is hard drive order. You have to play around to see what works. Most of the time I find usb's show up as a hard drive choice so I move it up in order under hard drives. Then leave boot order to hard drive first.

It also has a lot to do with your distro and how you tried to install it to the usb. Did you follow any web pages? What were they?
 
Old 06-20-2011, 05:33 AM   #4
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I have a 1TB usb External Hard drive (Segate), I would like to install linx on that drive. I tried red Hat it does not find hard drive. I run open suse, I partition the hard drive. After installation of disk 1 it reboots, at that point it does not go to usb external drive. Any Help Please!!!!!!!!!!!
Being able to boot from usb means that the initrd must have the host usb modules on it.
I think debian/*buntu are able to recreate the initrd if they notice the root will be on usb.
Try installing *buntu.
Most RedHat derivatives are so dumb that they can not tell is ruuning from sata/pata/usb/firewire etc.
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