Oh, right. I actually missed the comment about not finding the boot partition on the TM drive. (More than 10 lines of text and my attention wanders. On the Internet, no one knows that you're a goldfish.)
Anyway, I'm just glad that I could boot from the CD. What I hadn't mentioned is that my internal CD/DVD drive bit the dust ages ago, and I had to boot with an external USB DVD drive. I wasn't sure it was going to work, but it did.
So, I hope everyone notices that I'm in a much better mood now. (Could be the whiskey though.)
