On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 06:43:53PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Jerry Geis wrote: > >I have not changed the line to try root=/dev/sda1 as I was trying to > >make it work the same way. > > That might be worth trying, its a simple hack and it will tell you if > your kernel even boots or not. Also, what would happen if there were two filesystems labeled as / ? eg /dev/hda1 and /dev/sda1 ? It might make sense to label the USB thumbdrive as USBroot and modify fstab and grub informtation accordingly. -- rgds Stephen