Re: Trouble with grub on usb thumb drive :(
Caesium 5 <caesium5@gmail.com>:
>
> Just install Debian onto a 8GB usb thumbdrive. However, during the
> installatin, there's an error during installing of grub. Completed the
> installation without grub installed.
>
> I googled high and low and many articles points to the command below
>
> Command : grub-install [OPTION] install_device
> Example : grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/hda1
>
> Unfortunately, when I plug this usb thumb drive into my computer
> (Debian Lenny, KDE), it was detected as
>
> /media/Rain and system:/media/sdf1
>
> I've tried but is unable to fit the usb location into the above command.
>
> I am absolutely lost :(
>
>
>
> Anyone have experience with the above method? or Knows of any
> other method inwhich I can load grub into the usb thumbdrive?
Not that one specifically. I recently was playing with a web page I
found that used the Debian netinst for this, warning don't let it
install grub on the internal drive! I could find no way to tell the
installer that.
Oh well. Blowing away your boot loader means you get to test your
recovery system, yes? :-) [And I now have the finely tailored system
I should have had if I'd had the time to do it when I started all of
this.]
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