Hi,
and thanks Michael for your reply.
Maybe using Grub instead is worth a try.
I think we should first try to solve problem #2.
Sorry no idea yet. Can you please provide me a screenshot of the booting process where it hangs?
Sorry, I don't know how to make a screenshot in this stage of booting. And I don't have a digital camera (yet). So I try to write down the lines visible: the last lines before the problem happesn are related to raidx, so here it goes: Success: loaded module raid456 Success: loaded module raid5 Success: loaded module raid6 Modprobe: FATAL: Module raid10 not found Done. Begin: Assemblying all MD arrays ...
Now I get 6x the lines: usb 2-2: reset high speed USB device running ehci_hcd and address 2 followed by sd: 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00050000
And this will continue.
It looks like it accessed the disk successfully but it tries to access the single disk as a raid-disk in this stage (but I'm no expert here).
What can I do? Which information do you need?
Oh, and you might want to try to use root=UUID=... instead of root=/dev/sd[a-z]... so you can make sure your system uses the correct device for booting.
where do I have to put these modifications (I'm no expert here) ? I guess: I can use Knoppix to boot the machine and look for the file lio.conf (or so) on this external harddisk. Right?
AugustQ