Grub Error 15 "File Not Found" with Kubuntu on a stick

[Karl Larsen]

Graham Watkins wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been tearing my hair out while trying to get Kubuntu 8.04 to run 
> from a USB flash drive.
>
> When the install is complete and I reboot, a Grub menu appears showing 
> the flash drive installation and those on my hard drive.  When trying to 
> boot I get the error 15.
>
> I have put the boot folder on its own partition as I understand that not 
> doing so can cause this type of problem.
>
> The opening stanzas of menu.1st read as follows:
>
> title        Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
> root        (hd2,5)
>   
    This looks a bit odd. (hd2,5) is /dev/hdc6 which is odd since your 
USB device must be about (hd0,1) or close to that.

Karl

> kernel        /vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic 
> root=UUID=3154b860-2397-466a-a3ad-fcebf045ae97 ro quiet splash
> initrd        /initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
> quiet
>
> title        Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (recovery mode)
> root        (hd2,5)
> kernel        /vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic 
> root=UUID=3154b860-2397-466a-a3ad-fcebf045ae97 ro single
> initrd        /initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
>
> title        Ubuntu 8.04, memtest86+
> root        (hd2,5)
> kernel        /memtest86+.bin
> quiet
>
> When run from my hard drive (after inserting the flash drive and cding 
> to it) find /grub/menu.1st shows on (hd0,0) (hd1,4) and (hd2,5) which so 
> far as I can tell is what it should be. ( I have 2 hard drives both 
> containing linux installations).
>
> Without the usb drive I can boot normally.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
>   


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