Listmates, I can't recall who suggested it, Aaron or Patrick, but somebody made the suggestion to get a simple use to ide adapter to access spare laptop drives, etc. Well, I purchased one, and it is absolutely the sharpest thing since sliced bread. I have several drives for my laptop and murphy's law dictates that what you need is always on the other drive (theme, notes, etc.) I connected the usb cable to my spare 2.5 inch drive, changed the bios to boot from (1) removable devices (2) hard disk (3) cd/dvd drive (4) network. (Laptop is a Toshiba P35-S629) I turned the computer on, the usb drive started right away and it looked like the system was booting from the usb drive. However, the system booted from the installed hard drive instead. The usb drive was mounted automatically as: media/disk /dev/sdb7 spare 10.3 /home media/disk-1 /dev/sdb6 spare 10.3 / media/xpdrive /dev/sdb1 spare 10.3 XP partition Is there a grub boot parameter like (boot=/dev/sdb6) that will tell grub to boot from the usb drive? The reason being is that I would like to boot the install to update it. Any help will be appreciated and thank you whoever it was that recommended the usb to ide solution! -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org