Can't boot notebook from SSD

[MR ZenWiz]

I finally had a chance to try this again, and it still fails.

It is getting to the grub menu and attempting to boot from the SSD,
but for some reason it refuses to accept that it s her.  The BusyBox
message asks if rootdelay is long enough (same as for the HDD), and
that the root= is correct, then it says it can't find the disk
root=UUID="<the UUID that is in fact on the root partition>".

I did a fresh install (again), this time with a bios_grub 300MB
partition in front of the root partition.  When that didn't work, I
deleted the bios_grub partition and just left it as empty space.  When
that didn't work, I tried booting with root=LABEL=/, but it claimed
not to be able to find that label.  I went back into the flash drive
install boot ad verified that the partition was labeled correctly, but
it still failed.

Finally, I tried using root=hd(0,2), then root=hd(0,1).  Neither one
works - the boot claims it can't find those devices.

I took a few photos, but unless there's yet another detail I didn't
list above, I don't know if those will help.

I ran out of time and didn't get to try one more effort - reinstall
(again), but this time just start the 1 and only partition 300MB in
(instead of at the beginning of the empty space).  I'll try that
later, hopefully this week.

I'm losing patience with this charade.  The weight and speed
differences /should/ make it worthwhile, but I'm beginning to wonder
if it wasn't just a complete waste of money, time andeffort.

Thanks.
MR