> Second reason: We don't know where the other partition is that is > labelled /boot ( In my case it was on a USB2 removable HDD on /dev/sda1 that > caused the same problem)... seemed like that might make for a protracted fix > to get the guy to hunt it down. Er, uh, maybe I should mention that I recently had a Cruzer Mini 256 MB flash USB2 disk in the machine (/dev/sda1)? I'm sure that set the stage for the problem, but I'm not exactly sure why given that it wasn't bootable. To get it to work though, I had to make an addition to /etc/udpfstab.conf.default in the device flash section: match hd "Generic STORAGE DEVICE" Can anyone see how this got my boot partition off the mount list?? The flash disk only had a website on it, i.e. html files and images. Maybe when I first plugged it in, before making the udpfstab change, it got marked with a /boot? - John