have two drives, /dev/hda that holds Etch (/dev/hda1) and /dev/sda that holds Sarge (/dev/sda1). Both drives have swap space and grub and fstab have the correct entries. Grub is installed on the MBR of /dev/hda and the menu.lst resides in /boot/grub/.I'm curious here. Etch is on an IDE drive and Sarge is on a USB drive? Also, when you installed Sarge on the sda1 drive did it not boot properly immediately after the installation? If so, when did it stop booting properly? Rob
A suggestion. Check your BIOS settings to make sure USB boot is at the top of the boot order.
Yes, that is correct, Etch is on /dev/hda1 and Sarge is on /dev/sda1 which is controlled by USB. I won't go into the details of why I did that :-D.
Sarge did not boot properly immediatly after the install and in fact never booted on sda1.
The BIOS settings have the USB boot at the top of the boot sequence.I also tried replacing the line root=/dev/sda1 in menu.lst by root=/dev/hdb1 without success.
Daniel