Ok. Working towards a solution. set root=(hd1,5) ... works fine with the thumbdrive
set root=(hd0,5) ... works fine with the onboard grub at the command-line obviously, the usb is changing the partition prefix but why is update-grub not generating a correct prefix??? seems that clearly the solution is as suggested by Jordan, that I use UUID ... so, here-->http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/12/msg01537.html I removed set root=... and added: search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set fb796a23-e59e-4e15-ba92-15f0cd087714 regenerated grub.cfg ... everything goes well now. thanks for the lead, Jordan. Robert _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
