Boot from USB HD?

[Edward]

Jess Anderson wrote:
> Much discussion lately of dual booting arrangements and mention
> the other day of USB drive enclosures brought it to mind that
> another possible dual-boot arrangement might be to boot FC3
> from the internal HD (120 GB SATA). I note in the docs for my
> new mobo that the BIOS lets one select a second hard disk for
> booting. My concern at the moment is whether a USB-attached
> hard disk (which would be from a Win2K machine) could be
> detected as that second disk at boot time.
> 
> Has anyone tried such an arrangement?
> 
> The mobo, fyi, is Gigabyte 7VT600P-RZ(-C).

 From my experience, if removable devices are set at higher priority 
than IDE devices for boot, they will always be booted first, and 
considered the active boot drive.

Regards,
Ed.