I have a 1TB external USB drive (Seagate) which I use as storage medium. It has one big ntfs partition. So I set a boot flag for the partition with Gparted, make a frugal install of Puppy and run the Grub4Dos configuration tool. It installs the bootloader but reports the Puppy as a full install in menu.lst. WHY? It doesn't boot anyway, just hangs on a blank, black screen. On my other machine I get a message "Try NTFS5" BTW - I also have an SD Card. The latter boots, no problems with the same Grub4Dos install.
My external USB drive won't boot with Grub4Dos
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Re: My external USB drive won't boot with Grub4Dos
What type partition table is used on the drive?
GPT or msdos?
Grub4dos will not properly install on GPT.
Has to be msdos type partition table.
How many partitions on the drive?
Is secure boot and fast boot disabled in computers bios setup?
Is bios set to run in legacy mode or CSM?
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