Andres Salomon wrote: > Syslinux does not work for me (as well as a few other people), for > memory stick booting (see #273453 for more details). Unfortunatly, booting grub from a USB device has always failed for me and your method did not seem to work. :-( > Instead, I ended up > using grub to boot from my memory stick. Since people may be interested > in bypassing the syslinux/mbr dance, and/or may be more comfortable w/ > grub, here's what I did: Another reason might be if you have a larger stick and want partitions on it so you can use part of it for something other than debian-installer. > 1) If not already created, create a partition on the memory stick. The > type doesn't matter (I left it at the default for linux, which is 0x83), > just make sure the bootable flag is toggled. Format the partition, as > well (ext2 works perfectly well; mke2fs /dev/sda1 && tune2fs -m0 > /dev/sda1). I'm not sure if grub supports vfat, so this procedure may not > be for you if you want to mount the contents of your memory stick in > windows. If grub did support vfat, this would be easier yet since the boot.img.gz is a vfat filesystem with the installer files on it and could be uncompressed onto the partition. In my testing, writing that to the disk as /dev/sda1 made grub-installer fail though. > title Debian Installer > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz ramdisk_size=10000 root=/dev/rd/0 init=/linuxrc devfs=mount,dall rw > initrd /initrd.gz Doesn't this assume that the usb stick appears to grub as the first hard drive on the system you install? Seems unlikely if there is another disk. -- see shy jo
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