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lozontheweb
November 14th, 2010, 01:04 PM
I have a 320gb USB hard drive, one partition for my files, one for playing Wii games, and one which I would like to use for an Ubuntu instillation.

To do this, I partitioned my disk accordingly using Windows, then booted from the Ubuntu CD to install the OS to my external hard drive partition. It asked me where I wanted to install the boot loader, so I selected the hard drive itself, rather than the specific partition, reasoning that it would scan the hard drive for a boot record.

However, when I booted it (with USB boot selected) it simply said "No Operating System found, replace system disk and press enter" or something similar. :(

Where have I gone wrong with getting this to work?

Thanks in advance,
Laurence

lozontheweb
November 14th, 2010, 01:13 PM
Also, if it makes any difference, the Linux partition is not at the beginning of the drive, and the linux partition was formatted with ext4