Now to the list instead of the poster Scarletdown schreef: > I just purchased an external USB drive in hopes that I could toss an XP > build on it real quick without messing with everything on the internal > drives (friends wanting me to try Lord of the Rings Online which doesn't > work with Cedega is one of the reasons...) > ... > So it's obvious that GRUB can see external USB drives. However, it is > not visible to GRUB there at boot time. Is there any way to force GRUB > to actually see external drives? Can you check the contents of /boot/grub/device.map? I think you need to make sure your usb device is mentioned there for it to work at boot time. If it is not there, redo update-grub and check if the usb drive is added to device.map. If so, do a grub-install and then things should work. Sjoerd
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