Booting from e-sata drive

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Published on 2010-03-23T22:35:05Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 22:43 UTC
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I have a HP EliteBook laptop (don't know exact product number), which has an internal hard drive with Windows installed on it. I have an external hard drive with e-sata and USB ports, linux installed on it. When I try to boot from the external drive, it works if I use USB but not if I use e-sata.

In the BIOS setup, I have the following boot order set:

External SATA drive
USB Hard Drive
Notebook Upgrade Bay
Notebook Hard Drive
etc.

When I boot from another drive (such as the internal hard drive or from CD-ROM), and have the e-sata cable connected, it works perfectly.

Is there any way to boot from the e-sata drive?

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