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How can I boot from an external drive in fedora 8?

I’m really stuck

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Michael Leibman offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
Littleton, CO, US | 1 year, 10 months ago (9 minutes after post)

does your bios support it?

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super_ritchiebaby offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 9 #
Greenock, V4, GB | 1 year, 10 months ago (8 hours, 54 minutes after post)

Hook up the external USB disk and boot up the Linux.

Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and put a “#” at the beginning of the line “splashimage=????????”. Save the file and you will be able to remove the external disk in future bootings.

Explanation

Grub has been asked to load a splashscreen image stored in the external hard disk. No external hard disk and Grub doesn’t know what to do. You will do the same if you were Grub.

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