On 27/04/2010 20:52, Mark Johnson wrote:
> Hi All,
> After my EeePC broke recently I purchased a USB enclosure for the SSD with the
> hope of recovering data.
> The root of the problem is that my home partition is encrypted and I've had no
> luck mounting it and managing to decrypt the filenames, so I was hoping to boot
> into the system, log in and get at my data that way.
> However, now that the SSD is in its enclosure, neither my physical machine nor
> virtualbox sees it as bootable, despite the fact that it booted fine when it
> was installed directly in the EeePC. Is there a trick to make a USB device
> bootable?
USB device and the host both supporting it I believe.
If they don't, I don't think there is any special incantation to make
them work :|
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