Re: Installation failed
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 07:25:30PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Rob Owens wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:16:12PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> >>Mark Filipak wrote:
> >>>>>GRUB & LILO install failures unexplained - no help.
> >>Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders designed
> >>to work with a hard drive. You (probably) need to install a
> >>different boot loader on a USB stick - and which one is dependent on
> >>what your BIOS supports (and, of course, you have to set your BIOS
> >>appropriately).
> >>
> >>Booting from a CD/DVD follows a different process - using isolinux
> >>as the boot loader.
> >>
> >GRUB will work on a USB stick. I have Debian installed on a USB stick
> >right now and it uses GRUB.
> >
> >Syslinux is another way of doing it, but I don't know enough about it to
> >comment one way or another.
> >
> >
>
> come to think of it, if one is not REALLY careful, it's pretty easy
> to install a boot image on a USB stick, but then install the boot
> loader on the attached hard drive -- if you don't partition things
> properly, and don't use the right options, grub-install will go
> ahead and stick the boot loader on your attached hard disk, rather
> than the USB stick; or fail when it tries to access a non-existent
> MBR on the USB stick that hasn't been partitioned to have one
>
> in fact, I expect that's what's happening to Mark when he tries to
> install GRUB - the installer is either:
> a) trying to install on the hdd, which he's disconnected (fail), or,
> b) trying to install to the USB stick, which hasn't been partitioned
> properly (fail).
>
I think you're probably right. When I successfully installed Debian and
GRUB to a USB stick, I manually paritioned the USB stick with the
installer. I did not partition it beforehand, as I think Mark did.
Maybe the installer's partitioner does some magic that I don't know
about...
-Rob
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