[wplug] HD problems

[Zach]

Hey Shawn,

Thanks, something I can work on this weekend :-)
I am still thankful I've had only 2 catastrophic hardware failures in
the past 10 years.

Zach

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Shawn Zier <shawnzier at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
>  > When I boot into Ubuntu Live CD it automatically finds the disk and
>  > mounts it but unless some USB drivers are loaded at the boot stage I
>  > guess it won't be aware of its' existence but USB drivers are only
>  > loaded when the kernel is booting so it looks like I'm stuck in a
>  > Catch-22 situation.
>  Zack:
>
>  I know there is a way to do it because I was trying to figure it out a
>  while back when my laptop drive went down. I think your BIOS has to
>  support it. Seeing as your laptop is 8yrs old, it might not.
>
>  It looks like there are ways around having a BIOS that supports usb
>  booting directly. This page explains how to boot an Ubuntu system which
>  is installed on a USB device when the computer does not support USB
>  booting directly:
>
>  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromUSB
>
>  Have fun.
>
>  Shawn
>
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