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hey guys i m having a Maxtor External harddrive it is working pretty well if i plug out my internal hardrive till now but when i insert the internal hardrive ...
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    Question booting from the external harddrive

    hey guys
    i m having a Maxtor External harddrive
    it is working pretty well if i plug out my internal hardrive till now
    but when i insert the internal hardrive & although change the priority to boot from the usb drive (ie Maxtor Basic) ... the computer some times shows the grub from the usb but when i press enter then it shows that its is not able to find the kernel
    & sometimes it even didn't detect the usb drive
    what to do yaar
    please help me out
    Last edited by devils casper; 08-08-2008 at 04:31 PM. Reason: Removed formatting tags.

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    Post your root,kernel,and initrd lines from grub.conf from usb
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    this is my inittab file but why do you need this buddy???

    sorry buddy this form doesn't allow me to do so yaar
    where i can post it to you somewhere else than it han???

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