On Mar 11, 2:50 pm, "Caesium 5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
I did an external USB drive install recently, and found that grub2 wouldn't work. I was able to get regular grub to work, though. I went back and had the installer install grub (not grub2). When I tried to boot, it didn't work correctly, so I had to go back and modify menu.lst to set the correct root, kernel, and initrd values. This was a very handy resource for figuring out what needed to go where: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/grub/grub.htm The key was to figure out which drive naming terminology to use on which line. Mine looks like this: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.22-3-686 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet initrd /initrd.img savedefault YMMV, HAND, etc. -pedxing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
