Please always reply to the mailing list! On Monday 08 March 2010, weaver2wo...@gmail.com wrote: > On Mar 7, 2010 10:06am, Frans Pop <elen...@planet.nl> wrote: > > With Lenny you get a question asking if you want to install grub in > > "the MBR of the first hard disk". If you reply "no" to that, you can > > specify an alternative location, which can either be a different disk > > or a specific partition. > > Yes, I appreciate that and selected the /dev/SDB1/ option where the
/dev/SDB1/ is not a valid device name. My experience is that if you enter a correct device name, it works. You may need to check in one of the debug shells (on VT2 or VT3) what the correct device is. > flash drive was listed as the second SCSI device on the machine, but > just wound up with the same 'Fatal Error' popup. > This appears to be a bug, but with no listing in bugs. > If it was, I doubt that I would be the first to discover it after this > amount of release time. > > > However, it is quite likely that if you want to boot off the > > USB-stick, you will need to tune the grub installation afterward. > > Reason is that device identifications may be different if you boot off > > a different device. > > Yes, that's a given, but that's not my problem. > I can't install GRUB in order to configure it after. > If I could just install it, I could configure it, but it's a little > difficult to configure something before it's installed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003080250.15602.elen...@planet.nl
