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[LUG] Booting USB?

 

Hi all,

Does anyone know a way to get GRUB to pass control over to a USB device
to boot?

My laptop can boot from internal HDD, CD/DVD or network, but not USB.
I have permanently removed the DVD drive as it was knackered.  I have
Ubuntu installed on it's internal HDD, but I also have an external USB
drive.  I would like to be able to boot the external drive on the
laptop, but alas the BIOS doesn't support USB-booting of any nature.

GRUB is a pretty capable system, so I was wondering if any of you have
done this?

Cheers.
Grant.

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