On 1/2/06, Robert L Cochran <cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jim Cornette wrote: > > My Asrock motherboard has an option for booting from USB, so I tried to > boot my 60 Gb drive from USB (in order to avoid taking it out of the > external enclosure.) This gave me a black screen with these letters: > > LI > > I have some memory that this is the word LINUX and how many letters of > the word are spelled out on the screen indicate something about the > nature of the boot problem. If memory serves, the LI is part of the word LILO, the old LInux LOader that has been largely supplanted by GRUB. I wish I had more information to provide in helping solve your problem, but alas, I don't. I'm watching this thread with interest, though, but thus far it's only cementing my decision to abandon LVM in the future.