Jerry Geis wrote:
If you load the card into something else, and look at the label (e2label ...), is the card partition labelled?
Yes one of the steps I did was use "e2label /dev/sda1 / " I did run e2label /dev/sda1 and it said /
Next question: what drive does the system see it as? You can try adding rdshell to the end of the kernel line in grub, which gives you a very rudimentary shell, and you can see what drive the *system* thinks it is. Bet it's not grub's (hd0,0).
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