iwantsound44 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 i have selected in my bios to boot off usb but it will not let me....it says i have installed kalyway succesfully Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Need more info. Specs? Kind of drive? BIOS? "Will not let me"? That tells us nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwantsound44 Posted February 11, 2008 Author Share Posted February 11, 2008 sorry im not sure what type of bios it is an elements external harddrive it is a dell e521 sorry i cant give you more info and thank you for helping me...ik its an amd processor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wirm Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I've just installed it on a usb external harddrives. What is exactly happening. For me i had trouble booting would go to a blinking cursor. It sounds to me you cant boot off of a USB device but at the same time it says something about booting something. It's confusing. what were your exact steps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrumBrum74 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I had a similar problem with my HP DV9060EA laptop. Tried to install to an external usb drive. All looked to have installed fine, but wouldn't boot after restart. Had to use an external hard drive with power supply to get it to boot. Wouldn't work with external drive without power supply and power only from usb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zuz_242 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 if you can install on an external hdd but not boot afterwards (just blinking "_" ), you have to make that partition bootable. info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wirm Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Or to check before you do the Mac Partition "trick". You could try the rd=diskXsY boot flag X being the disk you installed too and Y being the partition. If you load the installer from the DVD and goto Disk Utilities, click your disk and "get information" it will say exactly which disk it is (mine happen to be disk2s1). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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