Trouble booting external hard drive
This is a discussion about Trouble booting external hard drive in the Everything Linux category; You folks are probably sick of boot trouble,but , heres another one. I'm trying to boot Ubuntu on a external (usb) drive. It installs fine. Every grub install option fails. I tried MBR install,floppy boot,and installed drive boot.
You folks are probably sick of boot trouble,but , heres another one. I'm trying to boot Ubuntu on a external (usb) drive. It installs fine. Every grub install option fails. I tried MBR install,floppy boot,and installed drive boot .
Grub shows both systems upon boot (XPee+Ubuntu)
XPee and recovery on internal drive.
Ubuntu is on external 20gig.(sda1)
I choose 'Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386'
I get graphic loading screen then:
ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist, dropping to a shell
System ( Ubuntu ) was installed to sda1.
What am I missing here?
At least Grub didnt trash my MBR this time.
Thanks for any help .
Grub shows both systems upon boot (XPee+Ubuntu)
XPee and recovery on internal drive.
Ubuntu is on external 20gig.(sda1)
I choose 'Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386'
I get graphic loading screen then:
ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist, dropping to a shell
System ( Ubuntu ) was installed to sda1.
What am I missing here?
At least Grub didnt trash my MBR this time.
Thanks for any help .
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Thank You for the info danleff,
I've been beating my head against the wall for days with this trouble.
I've been beating my head against the wall for days with this trouble.
