spiky wrote: > I have tried setting root to hd0,1 and setting boot to sda1 just incase > it looked at it as the 1st boot option, I,m not sure it is a grub fault > as when I ran grub update from Ubuntu it still wont boot.
> When you say get the command line to recognise the usb it appears in > bklid and device map shows hd0 hd1 hd2 So what happens at the command line when you try: linux (hd2,1)/boot/linux-whatever root=/dev/sda1 ro The root value may be /dev/sdc1. That depends on how the kernel interprets the drives. If grub recognizes the linux line, then just say 'boot'. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page