Hi,
> However, now that the SSD is in its enclosure, neither my physical machine nor
> virtualbox sees it as bootable, despite the fact that it booted fine when it
> was installed directly in the EeePC. Is there a trick to make a USB device
> bootable?
So you've put an SSD a slightly unusual device, in a USB caddy also
slightly unusual from a booting point of view, and then trying to boot
from it. It's probably possible, but getting all the incantations correct
is gonna be tricky.
Perhaps simplify things. Can you use dd or similar to take a flat image
of the SSD and put it in a file. Then configurue your virtualbox to boot
from the file. I assume virtualbox can use filesystem images in files.
Alternativly what model Eee did you have ? Maybe someone has the same
model and might let you swap drives long enough to boot and recover the
data.
--
Bob Dunlop
