Re: Installation failed
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.
-Rob
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