Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 11:18 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> make sure you change the setting for the splash screen as well. >> Otherwise grub tries to load it from the wrong drive and errors out. > > If it's on both drives, and the same partition number, it shouldn't > matter. It ought to work either way, it'd just use whichever drive it > thought was hd0 at that time. Alternative, you can comment it out and > just have a textual screen. > In this case, the OP only has windows on the laptop drive, so changing the settings or disabling the splash screen are the only options. He was booting from a boot CD, so the USB drive was the second BIOS drive. But the new laptop can boot from a USB drive, and the USB drive is the first BIOS drive when you do that. It makes things interesting when doing the install. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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