On 2013/3/3 2:28 PM, Go Linux wrote:
--- On Sun, 3/3/13, Mark Filipak wrote:On 2013/3/3 6:25 AM, Brian wrote:On Sat 02 Mar 2013 at 19:56:43 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote:The reason I switched the target from an 8-GB USB flash drive to a USB hard drive is that someone said I couldn't install to a USB flash drive because of the flash structures and that I should switch to a hard drive because the MBR will be easier to deal with. I thought that suggestion was bogus, but I went along with it because I had a spare USB hard drive and because I wanted to move past that roadblock, even if bogus.--cut--when that didn't work, I switched the target to the USB hard drive as suggested by someone.I think that suggestion started here ;) . . . --- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.linux@gmail.com> wrote:On 2013/3/1 3:29 PM, Go Linux wrote:--- On Fri, 3/1/13, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.linux@gmail.com>wrote:I'm afraid it's install Linux on a USB thumb driveor nothing.Duh . . . How about installing on an external harddrive? That would be nice, but that would be on USB also...The problem is not with USB. The problem is flash vs hard drive. AFAIK you CAN install grub2 to a hard drive and boot from it.
Thanks for dredging this out. Yes, that's when I switched the target from an 8-GB USB flash drive to a USB hard drive. Whether, in fact, what was written is true: that grub will not install to a flash drive, remains to be tested. Having installed to a USB hard drive, my next task will be installing to a USB flash drive. That may fail as predicted, but it's worth a try. ...I think I remember reading a few years ago that there exists a grub-replacement specifically for flash drives. I'm sorry if some folks have been confused about the identity of the target. Forget the 8-GB USB flash drive. The problem is with installation to a USB hard drive. It occurs only with the GUI installer, not the text-mode installer. Now, understand, by "text-mode" installer, I mean the menu-driven, non-GUI installer. I do not mean a command-line installer (if there even *is* one of those). The term "text-mode" is used by the Debian Live+LXDE boot menu. And before I leave this (to return later today with a great many results), I'd like to apologize for starting 3 differing threads. I would not normally do that, but I did it because some people were gleefully coming after me poisoning each existing thread with posts about trolling.Ciao - Mark.