[dba-Tech] How to set up my laptop to boot from USB?

[Heenan, Lambert]

New machines have a 'Secure Boot' feature in the BIOS where you have to jump through a few more hoops to enable booting off any device other than the boot drive. Take a look for that in your BIOS screens.

Lambert



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From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:56 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] How to set up my laptop to boot from USB?

The laptop in question is a Dell Inspiron with 8GB of RAM, running WIndows 8.1. I want to set it up to boot from a 64GB thumb drive loaded with Linux Ubuntu. (In the past I've had problems when trying to set up a dual boot, and want to avoid that route.) Normally, I'd just set Ubuntu up as a virtual machine in Oracle VirtualBox, but in this case I want every bit of RAM available because I plan to run an in-memory database.

I also have a desktop box that is set up to dual-boot, but it only has 4GB of RAM. On that box it was trivial; I just went into the BIOS and changed the boot order. How do I do the equivalent on my laptop?

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Arthur
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