Linux on an USB External Drive

[Basie]

I have a 500G WD External Drive and I just partitioned it using Partition Magic and so I have a number of Linux partitions. I was able to install Scientific Linux on first partition after my NTFS and Grub2 sees it but I can't boot into it. Do I need something like Syslinux on that partition? I was reading that on line somewhere. On my internal Drive I have about 8 different distros and they all work fine. That's on sda. Grub2 identifies the external drive as sdc.

 

[lxskllr]

That should work the way you have it. Syslinux is just a bootloader, and covered by your Grub2 install. You might want to install Grub2(or whatever you prefer) on that drive though, so you can use it on other computers. You'd use BIOS to select your bootable drive in that case, and the bootloader would give you the selection on the removable drive. I don't know what's going on with your current install, but that would be a functional work around.

 

[Basie]

Thanks for that. Before I went to sleep last night I thought of that to. Your response just confirms it will be my next attempt. I drift in and out of Linux so I never developed a continuity in my knowledge. lol