[solved]USB wont boot on some computers.

Hi all.
I have installed arch on a usb from a running arch system after doing pacman -S arch-install-scripts.
It boots on my Acer Aspire One which picks it up as a USB-HDD however when I tried to boot it on a different computer it didn't work and faliled with the error "Boot Error".
I have succesfully booted both ubuntu and fedora on the same pc.
Any ideas?
Not able to access my arch system right now but will the fact that arch is installed to a partition (sdb1) and not directly affect it(sdb)?
Previously I used the universal usb installer from pendrivelinux.com with it set to format the drive. I believe it did not use partitions.
I believe I just answered my own question. Anyone mind confirming if I'm correct ?
Last edited by theblazehen (2013-02-08 15:38:47)

Some older bioses boot from USB in "floppy mode" (it shows the disk as a floppy if it is not partionned, otherwise the first partition is shown as a floppy, possibly with a limitation of size). If you know your bootloader, you can manage to make it bootable (I think this is much easier with syslinux than with grub, because it can detect at boot time from where it is booted; without having you to explicitly tell it). You can also try the plop boot manager (http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/index.html). It is able to boot USB devices in hard disk mode even without Bios support.
Last edited by olive (2013-02-05 09:32:10)

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