oldhoghead wrote:Wayne,

One way to minimize the hda, sda issue is to use uuid, but then you have to remember to tweak fstab any time a partition gets reformatted, then it gets a new uuid.

cheers,
ohh

hi ohh, thanks for your suggestion.
Another issue is swap and resume..
Fortunately, someone on another forum helped me to use LABEL, change fstab and mkinitrd so as to avoid the /dev/<whatever> , Resume and 1 min delay issues.

As such, my grub stanza looked a lot neater, as below, only (hd0,x) will be in the stanza so any computer can boot up as long as Bios allow it.

title Gnome
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=Gnome root=LABEL=usb-gnome splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img


By the way I am now running the Gnome on USB drive to type this post.
Very good learning..

I have had very good luck on my System76 laptop by doing as ohh advises. The key piece seems to be that when I select my USB drive from the boot menu (which is F1 on my machine) antiX is booting from the first partition on the first drive, which is to say root (hd0,0). I have turned to using UUIDs in fstab and I find them much easier to maintain.

Congrats to TedV-UK for a fine write-up. I have taken the liberty of saving that one! The day will come when it saves the day I suspect.