GRUB problem: Booting Linux from USB Disk 2345

Reinstalling the O-S, which included doing the parbreastioning steps all over again, but this time specifying MBR of the USB disk on which to install GRUB stage1, worked. Now the initrd ramdisk is causing a panic... probably because it does not have USB drivers by default, so I will open it up and add them.

Recap: The reason modifying things to install GRUB (stage1) onto the MBR without reinstalling the O-S did not work is because the new MBR GRUB would look onto the very beginning of the USB disk for aboot filesystem, which was not there. What was there? the stage1 GRUB image I had told the Fedora installer (the first time I did the installation) to place there (i.e. the first sector ofboot), as well as what must have appeared to MBR GRUB as a corruptedboot since it was not expecting to find both stage1 grub and aboot filesystem.

That's where it was getting the messed up "menu.lst" from. Basically the boundary were theboot filesystem should have started for MBR GRUB to find it, was not where it was expected to be simply because what I specified on the first go around of the installation of FC5 (which was to install at that location "stage1").

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!

Best Regards, Noel