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On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Michael Sullivan<msulli1355@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> My server box died last week, and, as it was about ten years old, I |
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> decided to replace it. My wife and I opened the case and removed the |
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> hard drive (A major undertaking for us, I might add). We hooked the old |
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> hard drive up to a hard drive enclosure and plugged it via USB into a |
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> new computer we bought this morning. This new computer runs Windows |
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> Vista and only Windows Vista. I want to run Gentoo Linux on the |
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> enclosure. I have to keep Windows on it because all the computer repair |
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> shoppes around here only know Windows, and will be confused if I take it |
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> in to be repaired and it isn't running Windows. I planned to install |
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> grub on the main internal hard drive and use that to boot to the USB |
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> drive. I checked the BIOS, and there's no option to boot to USB. I've |
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> spent a couple of hours today googling this question, but all I can seem |
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> to find is how to do this from a linux partition other than the one on |
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> the USB drive. Is this even possible, and if so, how would I do it? |
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It seems surprising that such a new computer wouldn't let you boot |
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from USB. Usually in the boot order section of BIOS one of those |
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choices will be "removable disk" or "external device" or something |
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like that. That will typically boot your USB disk. |
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