Timothy Murphy wrote: > m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >> Are you trying to boot from the USB? If so, I'd fix the grub menu on >> that, if it's on /dev/sda1 of the flash drive, to use /dev/sda2 for the root= > > I don't think this is good advice. > It is much better to use the UUID, "root=UUID=..." > where the UUID can be found by blkid . > In my experience, /dev/sda can become /dev/sdb under CentOS > when a USB stick is inserted. > How very odd. I don't think I've *ever* seen that behavior, when a system is running on /dev/sda<whatever> as root. Now, *booting* from a USB drive, that's what I see 100% of the time, which was why I suggested editing it on the flash drive.... mark