[TriLUG] booting an external disk with grub 0.97

[Ric Moore via TriLUG]

On 04/20/2015 11:41 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG wrote:

> I've been at this on and off for a couple of weeks now and I haven't
> found one reference with google to booting a whole disk with grub 0.97.
> I've been booting disks with fried mbrs off a kernel on a usb drive for
> so long now, that I assumed it would be trivial to have the whole file
> system on a usb drive.
>
> Maybe you have to use grub2 or ISOLINUX to boot a whole external disk.

Did you reset/update your bios to reflect the new drive??? Ric


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