Hello John,
I agree with you in the way that grub is not my favourite boot manager.
For harddisk installations, I also prefer lilo over grub. However, for
USB media, it is somewhat complicated to use either grub or lilo, since
the disk is being seen with different geometry and addresses depending
on the individual BIOS idea of what kind of disk it is.
Hence the tool "flash-knoppix" from the "Preferences" menu, which
creates a master boot record on a FAT32-formatted USB stick with
syslinux, copies the DVD or CD content to it, and when booting from it,
you get asked to create an overlay file on the remaining space.
For the DVD version, I would recommend a 8GB usb flashdisk, so that you
have additional 4GB of spare space in addition to the 4GB allocated with
installed software.
Hope this helps. I would not use either grub or lilo here, but just
syslinux instead, which is designed to work best on DOS-formatted USB
flash disks with no trouble with a "stage1" or "stage2" bootloader.
Regards
-Klaus Knopper
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 04:20:38PM -0500, John Culleton wrote:
> 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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