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Valhalla

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Registered: 2007-08-18

Posts: 11

HDD Enclosure Boot Arch???

Okay, so I have an IDE hard drive that I would like to make into an external. I would also like to boot Arch from this drive. So, obviously I would buy an Enclosure (from NewEgg ) Is this possible? Will I be able to boot Arch? I've tried Google with no results on regards to booting...

I've also seen some enclosures that require a disc with its driver. Are there any enclosures I should stay away from, or do you have any recommendations? Again, this all depends if I can boot or not. Sorry for all the questions. =/

Thanks!

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: HDD Enclosure Boot Arch???

should be able to.

just about every usb enclosure i've ever seen have been usb mass storage, and these should all boot fine.

James

timtux

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From: Gävle, Sweden

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 178

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Re: HDD Enclosure Boot Arch???

Aslong as your motherbord supports booting from USB-devices.

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kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: HDD Enclosure Boot Arch???

When setting up the disk it might be a good idea to use persistent block device naming by partition label as discussed in this article

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Per … ice_naming

grub can then be set up to point to the partition label which would result in more reliable booting when using the usb drive.

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