Booting from a USB Drive

[Lisa Kachold]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 07:26:33PM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> > Sure, that is why someone told you above to use the UUID to identify the
> > drive instead of the changeagble /dev/?da type references. Here is a
> > reference:
> >    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingUUID
>
> With this last test, I did use the UUIDs but still same problem.  When
> looking at the /dev/disk directory, there were no sym links pointing
> to anything on the /dev/sdb device.  This was because the /dev/sdb
> device never got loaded for some reason.  That's what I'm now trying
> to figure out.  Actually at the time, I was looking at
> /dev/disk/by-label (I labeled my linux pertition as linux sho it
> should have been there.  I forgot to look at the by-uuid directory but
> I was using the uuid method to identify the paths in grub's menu.lst
> file.
>
>
When you fdisk -l or fdisk that device, does it show you any issues?
If you cannot boot and read it, you cannot boot and read it.

Rebuild it using a different process or distro!



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