How Do I Fix An Error When Booting Linux From Usb Drive?

Author: admin  //  Category: Linux


when i plug my usb into a loptop and boot the laptop off the usb drive, i get an error saying cannot mount. Then i click e to edit and it says … root hd1,0 and under the kernel it says /boot/vmlinuz. How do i fix this so i can run ubuntu on my laptop?

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2 Responses to “How Do I Fix An Error When Booting Linux From Usb Drive?”

  1. Anonymous Says:

    Weird, I thought partition numbers in Grub started with 1.
    Try ’set root=(hd1,1)’ or ’set root=(hdX,Y)’ where X is the disk’s number (starting from 0, and the Y is the part’s number, starting from 1).

  2. Tiger Says:

    You’re not booting from the USB - you have to set your BIOS to select the USB boot option first.
    hd0 is your first internal hard disk, hd1 is the next one.
    Your USB doesn’t mount as ‘hd1). - check out the BIOS boot options, set Floppy/USB at the first option. It should boot in around 20 seconds to desktop from USB.

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