I have an Inspiron 9400 as well and experience the same problem. I try booting from an external USB HD with both BIOS Option "USB Emulation" set to Enabled and USB as first item in the Boot Sequence. Both with BIOS A08 and A10. What am I doing wrong?
I'm migrating the Inspiron 9400 to WIN 7. But as I'm not so very much convinced of WIN 7, I would like to be able to boot my old hard drive with WINDOWS XP once in a while.
I now also installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a small remainig partition to check out your statement and right you are: Linux is booting perfectly from USB. So what's wrong will WINDOWS as neither 7 nor XP does?
ieee488
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January 17th, 2010 06:00
On my Latitude 110L, it says under USB Emulation Off - Note: you cannot boot any type of USB device (floppy, HDD, memory key) when this field is off
My USB Emulation = Enabled, and I can boot into Ubuntu Linux 9.10
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April 27th, 2011 08:00
Hello
I have an Inspiron 9400 as well and experience the same problem. I try booting from an external USB HD with both BIOS Option "USB Emulation" set to Enabled and USB as first item in the Boot Sequence. Both with BIOS A08 and A10. What am I doing wrong?
ieee488
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April 27th, 2011 12:00
An external USB hard drive with which OS?
Linux is capable of booting off USB.
tom4stoni
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April 28th, 2011 15:00
I'm migrating the Inspiron 9400 to WIN 7. But as I'm not so very much convinced of WIN 7, I would like to be able to boot my old hard drive with WINDOWS XP once in a while.
I now also installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a small remainig partition to check out your statement and right you are: Linux is booting perfectly from USB. So what's wrong will WINDOWS as neither 7 nor XP does?
Curious to get the news ...
ieee488
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April 28th, 2011 18:00
Windows XP apparently doesn't by default offer an USB install. You'll need to Google on how to do it.