Linux/Server 2008 External Firewire/eSATA

[Chilz0r]

Why for the life of me can I not get OpenSUSE/Random Linux Distro booting off my external firewire drive or through the ODD esata ports. I'm using rEFIt. At uni I just walk upto said PC, change BIOS options and I'm booting off the hard drive. Did a quick search and maybe something todo with bootloader???

Anybody experienced this before? It's driving me nuts!!!111!

 

[lemonade-maker]

You are describing the exact reason I bought a 2009 dual xeon and use vmware fusion. More problems than I can care to describe getting linux running well in a multi-boot mac.

Only way I could get a reliable linux system was to mount the drive internal via sata. Firewire/esata/usb always showed showed some.

Now with vmware and 16 gigs or ram, I am able to duplicate my entire production environment of 3 centos servers and a winblows virt for testing, simultaneously. I was able to eliminate 2 physical machines and use 1 physical machine for 10.6 server. Its much quieter and faster than the "real" machines.