Re: Knoppix on usb.
On Friday 21 January 2011 15:14:58 John Culleton wrote:
> I have a knoppix partition on hard disk. I want to make a knoppix
> on usb flash drive system for an old Acer netbook that has no cdrom
> drive. I booted my existing Knoppix hard disk partitition on my
> desktop machine, purchased a 4 gig usb (on sale at Radio Shack) and
> worked my way through the instructions on wiki/USB-Based FAQ.
>
> Grub is still my nemesis. after setting up the partition without
> incident I:
>
> mounted the usb drive on /mnt
> mkdir knoppix
> mount -o loop ./[iso name] knoppix
> cp -r knoppix/* /mnt
> sync ? (maybe I left this one out)
> umount knoppix
> rmdir knoppix
> mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub
> cp -r /boot/grub/* /mnt/boot/grub
> echo 'hd0 /dev/sdc' > /mnt/boot/grub/device.map
> (checked and this worked OK.)
> grub-install --root-directory=/mnt
> ... and at this point I got an error message along the lines of
> /mnt/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly
> or something like that.
> I changed the permissions on /mnt/boot/grub/stage1 to 666 and tried
> again. Same error message.
>
> stage1 is only 512 bytes long.
>
> I know lilo is not often used on Debian systems, but can I try that
> instead? I find grub impossibly complicated.
>
> John Culleton
>
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Repeated the above steps, this time with sync included. Same error
message:
"/mnt/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly"
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