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Posted: **Sun Jun 22, 2008 3:04 pm**

This is an interesting question
I suppose you connect via USB - there are other methods and the answer is perhaps the same
What is controlling boot when the external disk is not connected?
I read this as you only have XP on the internal disk. If so then the boot order of the disks must be set so the external is first, which is somewhat confusing.....
Where do you change boot options? At boot time?
If you have a consistent boot order you could edit menu.lst

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gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Then change as follows

title Linux Mint, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic

Maybe you should leave recovery mode as it is just in case

Posted: **Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:13 am**

Did this

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    title Linux Mint, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet splash
    initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic

get you to to boot Mint?
Strange
You see (hd0,0) is sda1....
Which is either your internal disk or your external depending on how grub sees it....
So if it is the external disk I would expect sda1 to be correct
However this is complicated (and if we mix in Windows it can get hopelessly bizarre)

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