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Posted: Sep. 26 2007,23:16 QUOTE

If you installed CF as hdc then your grub entry would be looking at the wrong non-existent drive when relocated into laptop as hda. That is why, I always install CF/IDE adapter as hda in host white box. The bios sees the boot loader but cannot find hdc to continue.
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Posted: Sep. 28 2007,20:55 QUOTE

Thanks for the confirmation. So your recommendation is to redo the entire install with the CF as hda ? No way to salvage the current installation by modifying a GRUB conf file on the CF ?...
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Posted: Sep. 28 2007,21:43 QUOTE

No. You should be able to mount it in another box and then drill down to /mnt/hd??/boot/grub/menu.lst
Then edit appropriately for hda1 or hda2 however you have it installed.
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Posted: Sep. 30 2007,20:22 QUOTE

Ah, thanks for the confirmation ! I'll try that out as soon as I can snatch a ride on the schoolboy's laptop :-)
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