On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 5:23 PM, jd1008 <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Partition 2 is 8GB swap partition. > I formatted partition 2 ext4. I'm confused because this seems like partition 2 is swap and ext4. > Now, if I power up with this external drive connected (usb3), > all I get is a cursor at upper left corner. What tool did you use to partition this drive? parted writes bootloader code to LBA 0 instructing the CPU to read the first absolute sector defined by the MBR partition entry having an active bit set. If there's nothing there, it stalls. The solution is to go to firmware setup and define a different drive as primary. Or zero the first 440 bytes of the external drive e.g. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=440 count=1 -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
