[TriLUG] booting an external disk with grub 0.97

[Bill Farrow via TriLUG]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> that's the problem here. I'm teaching someone python. He only has the
> windows laptop he got for xmas. He and his parents are not the
> fire-breathing GNU and hardware freaks that we are and quite reasonably
> don't want to void the warrantee.

Joe,
Can you download a Live USB stick image and run that on your friends laptop ?

> There is no need to either. All I need to do is run Linux off an external
> disk.
> This should be easy, right?

It is easy if you have UUID drive and partition identification
working. This means UUID for grub, kernel command line, fstab, etc.

Bill