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  1. January 23rd, 2009 #1
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    [solved] How to make boot cd for USB disk drive

    My latop PC has WinXP on its internal drive, which I do not want to touch.
    I need to make a boot cd that will boot ubuntu loaded on an external USB disk drive.
    This computer will not boot directly off USB devices.
    I followed the instructions in 'info grub' for making a bootable cd, but all I get is "error 25 disk read error", so I did something wrong, or misunderstood.

    Xp is on hd0
    Ubuntu is on (hd1,3)

    Maybe I should set it up to boot XP also, in case I crash the hdd.
    When I went into the menu and told it to find NTLDR, same thing, error 25.

    So I need to start over from the top.
    Last edited by doctordruidphd; January 23rd, 2009 at 10:55 PM. Reason: solved
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