I have following questions to you:
To which partition did you install the grub?
Did you make sure that the partition(s) names picked up when booting are same as the partition names when you installed debian?
Do you have same version of Debian installed on the internal Hard disk as well as external hard disk?
some thing like the hard disk is detected as hda when connected as primary master. and when connected to secondary master the same harddisk is detected as hdc. (this is the most general case).
----- Original Message ----- From: "Shyam S" shmkmrs@gmail.com To: fsug-bangalore@mm.gnu.org.in Subject: [FSUG-Bangalore] Debian Boot from external USB Hard Disk Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 10:51:52 +0530
Hi,
I am recently a problem in installing Debain GNU/Linux on my external hdd for my laptop. The laptop had boot from external HDD option. I install the Debain base system on the external hdd and grub was successfully installed but when I try to boot from the external hdd device the booting halted showing the following error message.
Warning: unable to open an initial console. Kernel panic - not syncing: no init found. try passing init= option to kernel
Thanks for any input/suggestion you may have
Regards Shyam
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