Re: USB external hard drive
Thread moved to Ubuntu +1 (Raring Ringtail).
Re: USB external hard drive
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When I choose the 13.04 entry after booting the internal hdd this message appears
That statement is confusing me. If you are booting the internal hdd then you should be loading Ubuntu 12.10. So, how is it possible that you can choose to boot 13.04 after you boot into 12.10? I do not understand.
Where is the Grub menu? In the MBR of the internal hard disk? Or in the MBR of the external hdd? What speed setting is the USB device set for in the BIOS. There is a big difference between "High Speed" and "Full Speed."
By the way this is not 13.04 specific. http://askubuntu.com/questions/10306...external-usb-h
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1867393
My wild guess would be to examine the BIOS settings for the hard drives. You have have a setting that is prompting the BIOS to look for that Identity.
Check this out
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1015693
Regards.
Re: USB external hard drive
Thanks for your response.
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That statement is confusing me. If you are booting the internal hdd then you should be loading Ubuntu 12.10. So, how is it possible that you can choose to boot 13.04 after you boot into 12.10? I do not understand.
The internal hard drive has a grub2 menu ... grub2 utilizes os prober ... so when my usb hd is connected it finds the raring install
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Where is the Grub menu? In the MBR of the internal hard disk? Or in the MBR of the external hdd? What speed setting is the USB device set for in the BIOS. There is a big difference between "High Speed" and "Full Speed."
There is a grub2 menu installed on both the hard drives which enables me to transport the usb hd to any pc. This is usb2 not 3 so I don't believe those options are available.
I agree not 13.04 specific a forum moderator moved this post from hardware. Yes I'm a double dipper:popcorn:
I had read that plus quite a bit more - mostly indicating this is NOT serious ... it slows boot time however
Re: USB external hard drive
As far as I know Ubuntu does NOT officially Support Installing onto an External Hard Drive, although I actually have been Successful once or twice at doing so. And it was only due to the fact that I was using a Mac at the time that allowed me to do so. What I suggest for one thing is make sure that your BIOS and/or UEFI Firmware is Compatible with an External Installation. Just FYI.
Re: USB external hard drive
Why wouldn't Ubuntu be supported no matter how it's installed. The op has found a great solution to have basically a portable setup that can be moved from computer to computer.
As a side note threads concerning (or mentioning) 13.04 posted in other sections of the forum won't be moved here after about the 11th of April.
Re: USB external hard drive
Cariboo907, there are some OLD Apple FAQ's that say that installing on an External Drive is not supported at least for Apple Machines. If that is no longer true, than those outdated FAQ's in the Apple Sub-Forum should be Updated or Removed. :-)
Re: USB external hard drive
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cariboo907
Re: USB external hard drive
Why wouldn't Ubuntu be supported no matter how it's installed. The op has found a great solution to have basically a portable setup that can be moved from computer to computer.
As a side note threads concerning (or mentioning) 13.04 posted in other sections of the forum won't be moved here after about the 11th of April.
Thanks for the kudo.:)
I fail to understand the side note ... I'm about 99% certain this has to do with hardware and not Ubuntu version - 1% maybe grub2:confused:
Re: USB external hard drive
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Originally Posted by
kevpan815
As far as I know Ubuntu does NOT officially Support Installing onto an External Hard Drive, although I actually have been Successful once or twice at doing so. And it was only due to the fact that I was using a Mac at the time that allowed me to do so. What I suggest for one thing is make sure that your BIOS and/or UEFI Firmware is Compatible with an External Installation. Just FYI.
? I've been testing "unstable" U+1 development booting from USB external drive for years on netbook, notebook, tower.
Raring i386 and amd64 run just fine from in this case SSD on an external USB drive, to an Acer Aspire One netbook with 20" external 1600x900 monitor wireless keyboard and mouse.
Now USB booting on my 2005 Thinkpad is pretty shaky. That notebook's bios support of USB is marginal.
Testing on USB drive helps (but not eliminates) early development screw ups where Grub2 fouls up and I have to do Grub Rescue or wipe the hard drive and start over. This is development.....
Having said all that, on occasion U+1 ubuntu installs on the Acer 5253 notebook won't boot so I do a Grub Rescue O.K. Most of the time. Solid as a rock on the little netbook and the tower.
Re: USB external hard drive
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Originally Posted by
kevpan815
Cariboo907, there are some OLD Apple FAQ's that say that installing on an External Drive is not supported at least for Apple Machines. If that is no longer true, than those outdated FAQ's in the Apple Sub-Forum should be Updated or Removed. :-)
The only Apple hardware I use at the moment, is a way old G3 that runs Debian stable, and is used as an mp3 jukebox. If some of the faqs in the Apple sub-form are out of date, please report them, so that we can do something about them.