Thanks for the reply, but I have gotten past that step. As I said in the 2nd email I sent in, it says that it is unable to mount the root partition. On IRC, the little help I did recieve suggested something about USB services loading later on. I have no idea what that means. :) Any thoughts? Thanks so much! ~Ian <div>On 6/3/06, Gary W. Swearingen <<a href="mailto:garys@opusnet.com">garys@opusnet.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">"Ian Kabeary" <<a href="mailto:omega21@gmail.com">omega21@gmail.com</a>> writes: > Hi there, > I was wanting to play around with Ubuntu, without removing Gentoo or > Windows. I put it onto my external USB hard drive, > and installed grub to /dev/sda. Im not sure if my laptop (Toshiba Satellite > A70) supports booting from USB, so I was wondering > if I could add something to my grub.conf file for the installation grub has > on my MBR so that it would boot my external USB? Learn to run the grub boot loader from its command line. That is, when it presents it's menu, you switch into command mode, and request help. You have to learn how it designates disks, partitions, etc. It's handy, because you can, say, set the "root" disk, and then type "file " followed by a "/" and then hit the tab key, and it will show you all the files in the root directory of the root disk you set. And hitting "tab" whild setting the root disk will show you all of the disks that you can set (ie, that grub can boot from). -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Cheers, Ian