Trouble booting external hard drive
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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