Hi. I have a Medion Akoya E5000D touch PC, that was born with Windows 8. For some reason, it won't boot any other OS (tried Debian 9.3, Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 7) from the HDD. It only want's to boot from a USB drive, if it contains a ISO file (dd if=debian.iso of=/dev/usbdisk) and not if the USB drive contains a normal Debian installation with Grub (drive from my ThinkPad in an USB enclosure). No BIOS settings make any difference.
So, is there a trick to make a bootable ISO, I can write to a USB drive, that just loads Grub from the harddrive, or contains the kernel and initrd or something similar?
Thanks.
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[Solved} Trick to boot HDD from USB?
[Solved} Trick to boot HDD from USB?
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Re: Trick to boot HDD from USB?
Try this command from a Windows Administrator prompt:
See http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=661411#p661411
If that doesn't work then perhaps try http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=659660#p659660
See also http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=47078
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bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\debian\grubx64.efi
If that doesn't work then perhaps try http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=659660#p659660
See also http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=47078
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Re: Trick to boot HDD from USB?
Thanks a lot The rEFInd tool worked like a charm.Head_on_a_Stick wrote:Try this command from a Windows Administrator prompt:See http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=661411#p661411Code: Select all
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\debian\grubx64.efi
If that doesn't work then perhaps try http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=659660#p659660
See also http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=47078