Thanks for the quick reply. I will try to answer your questions, but remember I am newbie.
My menu.lst is:
# For booting SliTaz from : /dev/hda1
#
title SliTaz GNU/Linux (cooking) (Kernel vmlinuz-2.6.30-slitaz)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30.6-slitaz root=/dev/hda1 quiet
I am not using UUID. From what I have read it is better, but I cannot figure out how to make the initrd image.
I am putting the new OS on an external 2.5" 500G drive (for now because I do not want to screw up the internal disk). I wanted to make 6 partitions (so I can boot several OS's). They were all formatted with mkfs.ext3. When I put the disk on another machine, which is running FC15 btw, I get:
[root@marvin hal]# /sbin/fdisk -l
<deleted info about the main disk>
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6214db7d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 411647 204800 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 411648 189155327 94371840 5 Extended
/dev/sdb3 189155328 193349631 2097152 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb4 193349632 976773167 391711768 83 Linux
/dev/sdb5 413696 63328255 31457280 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 63330304 126244863 31457280 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 126246912 189155327 31454208 83 Linux
When I mount /dev/sdb1 and run df -T is get:
[root@marvin hal]# df -T | grep sdb
/dev/sdb1 ext3 198337 98582 89515 53% /media/027e0753-3be0-4c33-ac60-bb9bbb4af80b
and finally:
[root@marvin hal]# ls /media/027e0753-3be0-4c33-ac60-bb9bbb4af80b/boot/
grub vmlinuz-2.6.30.6-slitaz
Does this help?