Another Ubuntu on external drive question

[Derek Broughton]

Derek Broughton wrote:

> Thilo Six wrote:
> 
>> Derek Broughton wrote the following on 29.12.2007 14:27
>> 
>>> I have two laptops that claim to be able to boot from USB (Dell Inspiron
>>> and HP Pavilion pv6000), but neither seems able to find the USB drive
>>> from
>>> Grub.  Can anybody help?
>> 
>> afaik if your in grub allready then you are allready to far.
>> My computer has a bios setting for boot order including usb.
>> 
>> Maybe you should check that.
>> 
> I did say that...  They're both set to boot from USB, and they don't.

I suppose I should have clarified in the original post that _because_ the
USB drive is being ignored in the actual BIOS process, I'm trying to get to
it from the Grub on the internal drive.
-- 
derek