[TriLUG] grub problems booting ubuntu from USB stick

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Tom Roche wrote:

>
> summary: I'm getting
>
> > Error 15: File not found

the location of the disk/file is known to the BIOS, but 
won't neccessarily be where the kernel will see it, after 
the kernel has booted.

go into grub edit mode attacking each line of your grub.conf
paragraph. Use the tab key to see what grub knows about at 
each stage eg start with

kernel (hd

and tab from there. This will tell you if the BIOS knows the 
USB stick as hd?

Eventually you'll get a kernel that boots. However you don't 
know where root is at this stage and you'll get a kernel 
panic when it can't mount the root partition. Start guessing 
again.

Joe
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