On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:33:36 -0700, walt wrote: > My USB stick, e.g. shows up in grub as (hd2). Now, I can't possibly > think straight enough to know in advance that the USB stick is (hd2), > so what I do every time is to use this trick from the grub prompt: > > grub> root (hd<now I hit TAB for a list of all drives that grub finds> > grub> root (hd<TAB> > Possible disks are: hd0 hd1 hd2 <that narrows it down to three> > > Now for each of the three disks I continue this way: > grub> root (hd0,<TAB to get a list of all partitions on (hd0)> > > On the third disk I finally recognize my USB stick because it has only > one partition, but just to be sure: > > grub> root (hd2,0)/<TAB to get a list of all directories on the > grub> partition> > > If by that time I'm still not sure which is the right disk then I'd > better go take a nap before proceeding ;o)
Or you could use find from the grub prompt. Just put a file identifying the USB stick in its root directory and find that. -- Neil Bothwick Computer (n): A device designed to speed and automate errors.
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