To boot THNX when you can't boot USB.
1. Put the hard drive back in your laptop (sorry!)
1a. start it booting from the hard drive
1b. wait for it too boot.
1c. Hang on
1d. not yet.
1e. almost there
1f. running init scripts
1g. ...
1h. You can get lower interest rates now at ...
1i. OK, log in.
2. mount the usb stick e.g. mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
3. mkdir /boot/thnx
4. cp /mnt/boot/* /boot/thnx
5. Add the following line to /boot/grub/menu.lst
title tiny horrible NOT xen -- sdb1
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/thnx/vmlinuz-2.6.23-rc5 ro root=LABEL=/THNX rhgb vga=ask \
reserve_vector=64
init=/bin/bash
initrd /boot/thnx/initrd-2.6.23-rc5.img
Reboot and select tiny horrible etc. to boot.
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