Can grub see your USB drive? (I doubt it) use tab completion at the grub prompt to see what drives grub recognises.
type root (hd then the tab key. It will report every disk that grub sees. On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 18:29 +1200, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > Greetings, > > For some time I have had Gentoo, SuSE and Windows XP on the same laptop > using triple boot with grub. Because of installing Debian I have shifted > SuSE to my external USB-harddrive. I can chroot into it alright but I > would also like to be able to boot it. It is slow but robust and > sometimes works better than my self-compiled kernel. I would also like > to have one static system that I do not change and of which I know that > it will work while experimentating with the other ones. > > My BIOS-setup is very limited and I cannot boot anything but hda, cdrom > and the (not existend) floppy-disk. Everything I found on the net only > showed how to install grub onto the usb-drive which isn't very helpfull > for me. > > I tried to add the following to /boot/grub/grub.conf but it didn't work: > > title SUSE LINUX 9.2 (USB) > kernel (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 vga=0x317 selinux=0 > splash=silent console=tty0 resume=/dev/hda2 desktop elevator=as showopts > initrd (hd1,1)/boot/initrd > > Is there any way to make grub recognise and boot SuSE? > > Happy Hacking, > Robert Himmelmann > > Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about > can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely. > -- Lao Tsu > > "Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Gödel's Theorem ..." > -- Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow" -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
