I got it. While in grub's shell that started during boot (before the kernel loaded) I noticed that grub detected the usb as (fd1), and not a hard disc. So I removed partitions on the usb flash, with the 'o' command in fdisk, formated the whole /dev/sdb disk as ext2, rebooted to the grub shell and setup (fd1).
It looks like the bios, grub, and linux have some conflicts. But this is good enough for me. It would only be a problem if I wanted more than one partition, but I don't. Thanks for the help. robert -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
