Scarletdown schreef: > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 16:53 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> 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. > > cat /boot/grub/device.map > (hd0) /dev/hda > (hd1) /dev/hdb Try adding (hd2) /dev/hd? (your usb disk) and then do a grub-install > > That is both before and after update-grub. As previously mentioned, hd1 > is the external drive, but only after the system has been fully booted > up and running. At the GRUB menu when first powered up, hd1 is still > the internal SCSI drive (whereas it becomes hd3 after booting). > > sudo update-grub > Password: > Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub > Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default > Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... > found: /boot/grub/menu.lst > Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... > Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-2-k7 > Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-k7 > Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1-k7 > Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done > > > I really do want to resolve this really soon. However, I am now leaning > toward just installing on that 9GB SCSI drive after all (all the rest of > the stuff (LOTRO and other things on the Windwoes side can still go on > the external). Need to do this before the trial time expires. :) > > > > >
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