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getting grub to boot usb puppy stick

my problem is.
have a fat16 1 Gig usb stick with puppy on it.
on an easynote that supports booting from usb it works perfectly.
but i have an older compaq destop that does not support booting an usb device.

so my idea was, give grub in its menu that is placed on the HD an entry to boot from this usb stick when it is pluged in.

this is how i have the menu.lst now and this gives me the error parsing number

Quote:

# Other bootable partition config begins
title Windows (on /dev/hda1)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# Other bootable partition config ends
# Other bootable partition config begins
title usblinux (on /dev/sda1)
root (sda1,1)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=norma
# Other bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Linux (on /dev/hda6)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends

but maybe it is something i want that can't be done

Code:

 

# Other bootable partition config begins

title Windows (on /dev/hda1)

rootnoverify (hd0,0)

makeactive

chainloader +1

# Other bootable partition config ends

# Other bootable partition config begins

title usblinux (on /dev/sda1)

root (sda1,1)

kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=norma

# Other bootable partition config ends

# Linux bootable partition config begins

title Linux (on /dev/hda6)

root (hd0,5)

kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 ro vga=normal

# Linux bootable partition config ends

I am not sure what should be used, but the highlighted line is not in GRUBs format. I.e. GRUB does not understand sda1

Quote:

Originally Posted by blackhole54

I am not sure what should be used, but the highlighted line is not in GRUBs format. I.e. GRUB does not understand sda1

i think it knows the sda but that is in a scsi pc.
i did read that somewhere