Thanks for the info, but followed the instructions and as usual I get the grub rescue prompt which is a total different issue and question.
But I tried what I have been trying to get the normal boot menu up set prefix(hd0,??) insmod normal normal now its saying no such partition. I ls at the rescue prompt and it shows the (HD0) but it gives no partitions to go along with it. On 09/26/2013 10:39 AM, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote: > On Thursday 26 September 2013 19:51:05 Geoff Swan wrote: > >> I've tried to boot off a USB Thumb Drive, an SD Card, and when >> its running through the boot proccess it keeps telling me that there is >> an unknown partition type, and therefore can't mount the root fs. > > Read > http://www.linux-archive.org/gentoo-user/481167-mounting-root-partition-uuid-no-initrd-needed.html > > The article refers to a different issue, but explains what you are looking > for. > quote > "I strongly suggest that you practice on a USB thumb drive before you > risk your real partition table !" > unquote > > I used it. You do not need a PC with EFI support, however, your kernel must > have " EFI GUID partition table support" compiled in. And you will need GPT ( > GUID partition tables ). > Good luck, > > Edgar > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
