Ubuntu 11.10 is on external HDD, how to boot (using grub4dos), and which initrd and vmlinuz to use?

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Published on 2012-01-02T10:56:22Z Indexed on 2012/04/13 11:45 UTC
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I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on external HDD. How can I boot it?

I used grub4dos before, and it worked with Fedora distributions. Problem I have now is that I don't know which initrd and vmlinuz files to use.

Tried with one I have in /boot directory, but booting did not worked... Can you give me some ideas what to try, do i have to use different initrd and vmlinuz, or I can solve this with other solutions.

Also, just to mention that boot goes to BusyBox v1.18.4 command prompt.

Thank you in advance!

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