[Grml] Booting with grub on usb-flash-pen

Michael Prokop mika at grml.org
Sun Jul 1 18:16:34 CEST 2007


* Morten Christensen <mc-grml at mc.cx> [20070701 18:08]:
> I have installed grml-small 0.40 on an usb flash-pen with grml2hd.

> When I try to boot it grub answers
> root (hd1,0)
> Filesystem unknown, partition type 0x7

> Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition

> Can any of you help me with, how to identify the flash-pen in grub? I 
> expect to make several lines in the grub/menu, and choose between them 
> depending on, if the PC already has a sata-harddisk or a pata-harddisk.

Partition type 0x7 is HPFS/NTFS, looks like you are trying to access
the wrong boot device. :)

Try 'root (hd0,0)' instead - does this what you expect it to?

regards,
-mika-
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