lanas wrote: > > The boot device is a USB stick that otherwise boots fine and the hard > disk is a ext3-formatted, two partitions and booting fine off hda1. It > is the only hard disk present in the system, No floppy, no nothing > else. BIOS boot sequence is USB-HDD, HDD-0. This makes the USB disk "hd0", so you presumably want to boot "hd1". -hpa