Boot from USB Hard Drive

[Lord_Night]

Ok Folks.. I'm at a loss here..

I have a 60gig maxtor Hard drive in a External usb case.
I need to be able to boot to this hard drive. it is running linux.

Clean install on new HDD. System is

P4 3ghz. Intel Board. 1 gig mem, 2 120gig maxtors on raid striped running windows XP pro NO SP2

the Motherboard itself supports USB boot and it boots from a pen drive dos fine.
how can I get it to boot to the Linux HDD.
anyhelp

[Tex]

Dad gum it I just read a letter to the editor in Linux magazine Thursday about the changes to the bootloader needed to make this work. I'll get my brief case out of the car later and post the answer if someone else doesnt.

If I do not get back to this thread PM or email me as I just forgot.

tex

[Lord_Night]

any ideas anyone... please..................

I tried the stuff I found online about makign a floppy disk and all
maybe I am not doing it right but nothing is working.....

:scratch:

[Tex]

Its not that easy. First off only a couple of Linux distro's support what your trying to do. And even then the bios has to support it.

I think the guy said mandrake 10 was what he got to work. email or PM me later so I remember to go find the magazine.

You should be posting this in the Linux section as it has nothing really to do with hardware or controllers etc..

This is a pure OS software related problem really. The linux guru's are probably not even seeing this post.

Tex