On 26/09/12 20:32, John Bowden wrote:

As far as I know unenetbooting does not work with our iso's, its a long time
erm undocumented feature ;) you can use the DD command, there is even a DD for
widoz.

Thanks everyone for your replies,

I think there might be a hardware issue somewhere. The laptop detects USB sticks (and e-book readers) and reports that the device isn't bootable however the USB hard drive is simply ignored. So there must be some subtle difference between the mechanical drive and a USB stick.

The Internet is awash with tutorials on how to create a bootable external drive but, in my case, unless the external drive is mounted it's not detected and the BIOS is set to boot from an external drive.

I'm reluctant to try my drive on someone else's computer because if anything goes wrong, even six years later, it will be my fault.

I don't think Tuxboot or DD would offer a solution.

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Regards,
Phil

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