backup superduper boot from usb drive
 

i have sucessfully installed leovallv3 on my amd system with sb600 chipset... i am using GRUB to load vista/ubuntu/leopard... for the leopard partition i use the chain loader... the darwin bootloader then starts up and i can choose from what partition i want to boot... now:

before i try to update and play around with the extensions folder again i back upd the whole partition on a usb drive (1 ntfs + 1 hfs partition) using SuperDuper but

the darwin bootloader does not recognize my usb drive... so now i am trying to find a way to boot from the external drive... any hints would be appreciated...

thank you,
classic

Maybe your BIOS offers you a method to choose a secondary boot device - either on startup by pressing a key or in the BIOS configuration. But make sure, that you've installed a bootloader on the USB drive.
Good luck!

to boot from harddisc via bios is no problem...

but before i start messing with the external i want a go ahead from you guys :D

my goal is to have vista/ubuntu/leo completly as a mirror on my external able to boot from it via usb in case the internal disc goes kaputt...

this is the way i want to do it:

/dev/sde1 NTFS (vista backup with acronis)
/dev/sde2 ext2 (GRUB + Ubuntu backup)
/dev/sde3 hfs+ (leo backup with superduper)

i already have those partitions and have vista and leo back upd completly... my bios is able to boot from usb... but i still didnt install grub...

first question: do i need an swap partition for ubuntu backup and whats the easiest way to mirror ubuntu?

second question: i mounted the ext2 partition with mount /dev/sde2 /mnt; when i want to create a folder with mkdir i get a message that its only a read only filesystem - how do i mount with writeable?

third question: when i mount it writeable i want to do the following:

01 cp /boot/grub/*stage* /mnt/boot/grub
02 echo '(hd0) /dev/sde > /mnt/boot/grub/device.map
03 grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/dev/sde
unmount /mnt + reboot and see if grub is loading... since i copied grub from my internal it should be the same settings or the external and it should work...

ok what do you think? is this the way to go?

i have used super duper to copy whole leo system on the external disc... what do i do now to boot from the usb drive?

You'll need to install the chameleon bootloader on the usb drive - that will get it booting without the cd. Once you've done that you can either use the bios to select the usb drive on boot or add it to your vista bootloader using easybcd.