[bryanchicken]

Hi all,
i've seen similar posts about installing to external hard drives, but not found one with my particular problem. Hopefully one of you kind folks will be able to help me.

I want to install xbmc to a USB connected 2.5" HDD. This is because i want to add another drive to my data pool and will then be out of sata ports (no expansion as its mini-itx).

So, i disconnected all internal drives and attached usb hdd and usb dvd drive with the live cd in.
Everything in the install went swimmingly. The partitioner found the usb hdd and everything seemed to install correctly.

After installation was complete i rebooted (removed the cd from the drive) and after the bios flash screen i got:

Code:

Error 15 file not found
grub rescue>

The only command that i could find that worked was ls which gave me:

Code:

grub rescue>ls
(hd0), (hd0,1)

I tried on 2 different external hard drives with the same outcome.
Bios is set to have the external usb drive as the first boot device. In fact its the only boot device.

Anyone got any suggestions? Has anyone managed to install to external usb successfully before?

Thanks very much