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When I choose to boot from USB device I get a grub menu to choose
the kernel to boot. I pick one, doesn't seem to matter which, and
the boot starts but I know no way to interrupt it to choose from the
USB HD BIOS an option to boot from the USB drive. How can I do that
, if I even can?<br>
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On 01/31/2012 06:20 PM, Rob Haag wrote:
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cite="mid:CAC0=j07OXFazdFGz8DxFKMTY+h4yRJx+sFp8XN92Qaat0bNZDw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">This is just an inquiry to your problem... Do you
think that it is booting to the USB drive, then the Grub installed
on that one is attempting to boot your internal HDD (because Grub
on the USB drive is probably configured to boot off of the 1st
partiion of the 1st hard disk) ? This could occur if you used the
PC's bios to choose to start from the USB disk (interrupt the
pc's startup (not the bootloader's) to choose a boot device). If
that is the case, you could interupt Grub (on the USB disk) and
tell it to boot from the USB disk... <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:47 PM,
BrianO'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Sorry about the double
post but e2fsprogs is installed.<br>
<br>
Brian
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On 01/31/2012 05:46 PM, BrianO'Keefe wrote: </div>
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<div class="h5"> A while back I cloned my HD to a larger
HD using dd and the advice of all the great guys on
this list. It worked perfectly and after the cloning I
booted the new drive as a USB device and that also
worked perfectly so I replaced the smaller HD with the
new one.<br>
I had an idea that I could boot the old drive as a USB
device and try the apt-get dist-upgrade on that
version, which is also Ubuntu 10.10 though without
some updates over the last several months. This would
let me know how the partial upgrade worked.
However....<br>
When I try to boot the USB drive grub defaults to the
newer, installed HD and the USB drive won't boot. I
also can't see the drive in nautilus but it does show
up in GParted as mounted. There is a info flag with it
that states, <br>
"Unable to read the contents of this file system!
Because some of this some operations may be
unavailable.<br>
The following list of software packages is required
for ext4 file system support: e2fsprogs v1.41+."<br>
<br>
If the file system is unreadable then the
unbootability makes sense but what would cause it to
become that way?<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
Brian<br>
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