On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:12:16PM -0500, vr wrote: > On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:19:53 -0500, Pobega wrote: > > > Is there any reason why you can't do this with the standard installer? > > Seems like it would be pretty simple to do in partman. > > That's what I've been trying but after I reboot the installed system I > get: > > root (hd1,0) > Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 > kernel /boot/vmlinux-2.6.26-2-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet > Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition > Press any key to continue . . . > > which doesn't make sense (to me) because the install seems to go fine and > the devices are bootable, marked bootable, recognized in the BIOS, etc. Any > insight is appreciated. :-) > You might want to try configuring grub with UUID instead of /dev/sdXN
Who knows if grub is really looking at your USB disk when it's trying to find /dev/sdb1 -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
