Re: [orca-list] problems booting into linux from an external hard drive

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

Try hitting the down arrow key once and hitting return immediately 
afterwards just once at different points in the boot sequence but shortly 
When booting the computer don't have the live CD in the drive.  But do 
hold down the left shift key for a few seconds after the post test beep 
and then release it and hit the down arrow key once then hit the return 
key once and see if that gets you logging into ubuntu.


On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Beth Wright wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I just installed Ubuntu 7.04 from the live CD onto an external USB 40-gig hard drive, which is plugged into 
> my Windows XP desktop computer.  I think the installation went okay, but I don't know how to boot into this 
> extra hard drive.  Is it possible to do this by inserting the live CD and issuing some commands?  For a 
> while, I thought I'd erased my XP hard drive by mistake, because I had so much trouble getting back into 
> Windows after the installation.  I chose the extra hard drive because someone on one of the lists said thas 
> method was preferable to dual-booting if you wanted to install Linux on a Windows system.  Thanks in advance.
>
> Beth Wright