On 2013/3/1 3:16 PM, 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.
Booting from a USB stick follows yet another process, and which
process is somewhat dependent on what your BIOS supports. I'm a
little fggy on the details (haven't done it it a while), but some
BIOSs know how to boot from a USB stick, others have a mode called
USBHDD, where they treat the USB stick as if it's a hard drive -
which means you have to play some games in the USB setup to make it
look like a hard drive, with an MBR and all. As I recall, syslinux
is one way to boot from a USB stick.
See http://wiki.debian.org/BootProcess for more details.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en for
installing on a USB stick
(when in doubt, FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS)
Try doing a basic installation from
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual before you start
trying more complicated things.
Miles, I'm already booting from USB. I don't need help there. And a
basic installation per your link is out of the question. I recall
something about isolinux from a few years ago, but during
installation, I'm presented only with GRUB (actually, that is
automatically tried) or LILO.