I got a USB hard-drive recently, it appears automatically (nice!) on my desktop...
I want to install a Linux onto it, so I can use it like a liveCD for other peoples boxes with broken OSs ;-)
I installed Debian onto it (IIUC, fedora installer doesnt do this) and used EXTLINUX ( part of syslinux-3.00, verry nice) to make it bootable.
<aside> On my dads dell, it is partly successful, extlinux works - the kernel boots, but panics when it cant open dev/console </aside>
Id like to test it from my laptop. but when I try the same from my laptop (FC-3 on Sony VGN-A190) grub doesnt even recognize the drive.
when I try editing the boot-setup to try (hd1,0) it fails:
(e for edit,
e again to edit 1st line - the root (hd1,0) line
backspace thru the (hd1,0)
then retype '(h' and hit tab,
it autocompletes to '(hd0,' and prompts me for one of the partitions on /dev/hda)
IOW - its not even seeing /dev/sda, so autocompletes right past that choice. ANY IDEA WHY ?
