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Ian Kabeary said the following on 06/03/2006 08:40 PM:
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cite="mid71e46d510606031740g3d60133amf2ba1fe64d677928@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Thanks for the reply, but I have gotten past that step.<br>
As I said in the 2nd email I sent in, it says that it is unable to mount<br>
the root partition. On IRC, the little help I did recieve suggested
something<br>
about USB services loading later on. I have no idea what that means. :)
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Any thoughts?<br>
Thanks so much!<br>
~Ian<br>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gary
W. Swearingen</b> <<a href="mailto:garys@opusnet.com">garys@opusnet.com</a>>
wrote:</span>
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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:
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> Hi there,<br>
> I was wanting to play around with Ubuntu, without removing Gentoo
or<br>
> Windows. I put it onto my external USB hard drive,<br>
> and installed grub to /dev/sda. Im not sure if my laptop (Toshiba
Satellite
<br>
> A70) supports booting from USB, so I was wondering<br>
> if I could add something to my grub.conf file for the installation
grub has<br>
> on my MBR so that it would boot my external USB?<br>
<br>
Learn to run the grub boot loader from its command line. That is,
<br>
when it presents it's menu, you switch into command mode, and request<br>
help. You have to learn how it designates disks, partitions, etc.<br>
It's handy, because you can, say, set the "root" disk, and then type
<br>
"file " followed by a "/" and then hit the tab key, and it will show<br>
you all the files in the root directory of the root disk you set. And<br>
hitting "tab" whild setting the root disk will show you all of the
<br>
disks that you can set (ie, that grub can boot from).<br>
<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Ian
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The drivers for USB devices are not loaded at that point in the boot
process so there is no connection to the USB drive. Maybe you could
load a driver from the grub command line.<br>
Good luck,<br>
Alex<br>
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