Listmates,
I can't recall who suggested it, Aaron or Patrick, but somebody made
the suggestion to get a simple use to ide adapter to access spare laptop
drives, etc. Well, I purchased one, and it is absolutely the sharpest
thing since sliced bread. I have several drives for my laptop and
murphy's law dictates that what you need is always on the other drive
(theme, notes, etc.)
I connected the usb cable to my spare 2.5 inch drive, changed the bios
to boot from (1) removable devices (2) hard disk (3) cd/dvd drive (4)
network. (Laptop is a Toshiba P35-S629) I turned the computer on, the
usb drive started right away and it looked like the system was booting
from the usb drive. However, the system booted from the installed hard
drive instead.
The usb drive was mounted automatically as:
media/disk /dev/sdb7 spare 10.3 /home
media/disk-1 /dev/sdb6 spare 10.3 /
media/xpdrive /dev/sdb1 spare 10.3 XP partition
Is there a grub boot parameter like (boot=/dev/sdb6) that will tell
grub to boot from the usb drive? The reason being is that I would like
to boot the install to update it. Any help will be appreciated and thank
you whoever it was that recommended the usb to ide solution!
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David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
www.rankinlawfirm.com
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