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Hello,
I have a computer with BIOS MBR booting and use an external USB HD (1 TB) for keeping Arch installation on it and booting with GRUB on that machine. The problem is that computer doesn't boot from that HD. If any other hard drives are configured for booting in BIOS (after that HD), then the booting is done from them. If no other drives are configured for booting, then "No bootable device" message is displayed.
The HD is new and doesn't have any errors. Other external HDs, including a HD with GRUB on a Debian installation, boot OK on that machine. In the BIOS settings this HD is visible and correctly recognized as Toshiba HD.
The Arch installation is just installed and contains only base package, after which only the grub package was installed:
[root ~]# pacstrap /mnt/arch1 base
/...output skipped.../
[root ~]# genfstab -U /mnt/arch1 >> /mnt/arch1/etc/fstab
[root ~]# arch-chroot /mnt/arch1
[root /]# pacman -S grub
/...output skipped.../
[root /]# grub-install /dev/sde
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
[root /]# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-linux
Found initrd image(s) in /boot: initramfs-linux.img
Found fallback initrd image(s) in /boot: initramfs-linux-fallback.img
doneThis is a print of partition table (in fdisk):
Expert command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sde: 931.5 GiB, 1000204883968 bytes, 1953525164 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xa3e614db
Device Boot Start End Sectors Id Type Start-C/H/S End-C/H/S Attrs
/dev/sde1 * 2048 81922047 81920000 83 Linux 0/32/33 1023/254/63 80
/dev/sde2 81922048 90114047 8192000 82 Linux s 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 This is a print of the first disk sector:
Expert command (m for help): d
First sector: offset = 0, size = 512 bytes.
00000000 eb 63 90 10 8e d0 bc 00 b0 b8 00 00 8e d8 8e c0
00000010 fb be 00 7c bf 00 06 b9 00 02 f3 a4 ea 21 06 00
00000020 00 be be 07 38 04 75 0b 83 c6 10 81 fe fe 07 75
00000030 f3 eb 16 b4 02 b0 01 bb 00 7c b2 80 8a 74 01 8b
00000040 4c 02 cd 13 ea 00 7c 00 00 eb fe 00 00 00 00 00
00000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 01 00 00 00
00000060 00 00 00 00 ff fa 90 90 f6 c2 80 74 05 f6 c2 70
00000070 74 02 b2 80 ea 79 7c 00 00 31 c0 8e d8 8e d0 bc
00000080 00 20 fb a0 64 7c 3c ff 74 02 88 c2 52 be 80 7d
00000090 e8 17 01 be 05 7c b4 41 bb aa 55 cd 13 5a 52 72
000000a0 3d 81 fb 55 aa 75 37 83 e1 01 74 32 31 c0 89 44
000000b0 04 40 88 44 ff 89 44 02 c7 04 10 00 66 8b 1e 5c
000000c0 7c 66 89 5c 08 66 8b 1e 60 7c 66 89 5c 0c c7 44
000000d0 06 00 70 b4 42 cd 13 72 05 bb 00 70 eb 76 b4 08
000000e0 cd 13 73 0d 5a 84 d2 0f 83 d8 00 be 8b 7d e9 82
000000f0 00 66 0f b6 c6 88 64 ff 40 66 89 44 04 0f b6 d1
00000100 c1 e2 02 88 e8 88 f4 40 89 44 08 0f b6 c2 c0 e8
00000110 02 66 89 04 66 a1 60 7c 66 09 c0 75 4e 66 a1 5c
00000120 7c 66 31 d2 66 f7 34 88 d1 31 d2 66 f7 74 04 3b
00000130 44 08 7d 37 fe c1 88 c5 30 c0 c1 e8 02 08 c1 88
00000140 d0 5a 88 c6 bb 00 70 8e c3 31 db b8 01 02 cd 13
00000150 72 1e 8c c3 60 1e b9 00 01 8e db 31 f6 bf 00 80
00000160 8e c6 fc f3 a5 1f 61 ff 26 5a 7c be 86 7d eb 03
00000170 be 95 7d e8 34 00 be 9a 7d e8 2e 00 cd 18 eb fe
00000180 47 52 55 42 20 00 47 65 6f 6d 00 48 61 72 64 20
00000190 44 69 73 6b 00 52 65 61 64 00 20 45 72 72 6f 72
000001a0 0d 0a 00 bb 01 00 b4 0e cd 10 ac 3c 00 75 f4 c3
000001b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 db 14 e6 a3 00 00 80 20
000001c0 21 00 83 fe ff ff 00 08 00 00 00 00 e2 04 00 fe
000001d0 ff ff 82 fe ff ff 00 08 e2 04 00 00 7d 00 00 00
000001e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aaMy question is what can be the reasons for the USB drive not booting? All other external HDs boot normally on that machine, and no other devices apart from mouse and keyboard are connected to USB ports during booting. The USB port for HD is on the back panel of the computer (not on an external USB-Hub).
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Please, install grub in the external drive,see the installation guide or grub wiki section.
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