Installation on external USB hard disk

[srinag]

Hello ppl, I bought a 160 gb external USB hard disk and had decided to intall BT2 onto it. Accordingly, I made a partition for BT2 and the rest I formatted under NTFS.
Using the BT2 installer, I installed it into the BT2 partition. But, my problem is that it does not boot.

What i did:
/dev/sdb1 : 10gb, ext3, used for BT2
/dev/sdb2 : rest of the space, NTFS
Wrote MBR onto /dev/sdb
It dosen't boot

Could anyone pls tell me how to properly install BT2 onto my external hard disk. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanx.

[johnchain]

Here's the awesome and working tutorial:

http://forums.remote-exploit.org/showthread.php?t=7844

[balding_parrot]

Here's the awesome and working tutorial:

http://forums.remote-exploit.org/showthread.php?t=7844

Thank you for the compliment, and for the further compliment of recommending it to someone else.

[barecool]

I have followed all of your tutorials but my USB HDD doesnt want to boot BT

I did the partitions and everything

I had it running on my usb key and now i have a 120GB WD usb portable drive and doesnt boot BT

any Ideas since the tutorials havent helped

[ExitOnly@]

I´m only assuming this is a dual-boot, right? If you have windows as other os, this might help

http://forums.remote-exploit.org/showthread.php?t=3958
(Author The_Denv)

Wish you luck,

[shamanvirtuel]

i used to boot on a 160.... WD too

the error is mainly to not add the -f (force) switch to syslinux commands........

you do need to add it by hand