On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:42 AM, cyberdork33 <cyb...@gm...> wrote:
> The only way we have found to boot from an external drive is via grub-efi.
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=995704
>
> On Feb 5, 2009, at 11:27 PM, Justin Mattock wrote:
>
>> After installing ubuntu to my external firewire
>> drive, I notice EFI doesn't see it.
>> (pressing "T" shows the firewire symbol nothing more);
>> I've set the mbr, with grub2, but still no signs of life.
>> how does one go about doing this?
>>
>> regards;
>>
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>> Justin P. Mattock
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Thanks for the info.
I'll have to try that.
here's what I've been looking at:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot/ExternalHardDisk/Firewire
the problem is after reading up, I think this was geared towards
the older mac's.(yaboot, ppc etc..);
>From just looking at the drive, I see the light react once
(telling me efi does ask for something)but then quickly gives
up due to no script(or info) to boot.
but that's just a quick guess.
regards;
--
Justin P. Mattock
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