I have a usb hard drive with ubuntu 12.10 partition on it, but I can't seem to actually boot into the livecd.
I can get to the grub menu, and I select "Try without installing", but then the screen just goes blank. I've tried leaving it for a while, but it was still blank, and switching to another tty didn't work either. It appears that my external hard drive powers off. It's a 2.5" drive, so there's no external power or anything like that.
I can mount and access the files fine when I'm in windows and linux. It's formatted as FAT32 (w95), with another NTFS partition on it. Am I just missing something when making it bootable, or is there a bios setting to keep power to the hdd?