On Sat 02 Oct 2021 at 19:48:41 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
[...]
> I had some understanding issues, mostly in chapter
> "Manually copying files to the USB stick — the flexible way"
I have never really understood what is so special about syslinux and
mbr.bin in the context of using hd-media. GRUB should always be at
hand on a Linux machine. This is my flexible way:
1. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb count=100
(Could be omitted).
2. cfdisk /dev/sdb (FAT).
3. mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1
dosfslabel /dev/sdb1 LABEL.
(Download dosfstools).
4. mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sdb
5. cp vmlinuz /mnt/boot
cp initrd.gz /mnt/boot
6. cp <installation_ISO> /mnt
7. # An example grub.cfg.
menuentry 'Debian 11.0.0' {
linux /boot/vmlinuz shared/ask_device=manual \
shared/enter_device=/dev/disk/by-label/LABEL
initrd /boot/initrd.gz
}
8. cp grub.cfg /mnt/boot/grub
9. Boot.
More detail at https://wiki.debian.org/Installation+Archive+USBStick.
To declare an interest - I wrote that page.
Regards,
Brian.
