On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 05:25:20PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > On 2013/3/1 3:55 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 01:39:19PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > >>13 - Removed hard disk. > >>14 - Booted Debian-LXDE on 1-GB USB. > >>14.1 - Created 2.5-GB /, 0.5-GB swap, and 5.0-GB /windows (FAT-32). > >>14.2 - Attempted install to the 8-GB USB (newly partitioned). > >>14.3 - Install succeeded! > >>14.4 - Automatic GRUB install failed! > > > >I would try this: > > > >Answer "no" to the question about installing GRUB to the MBR. > > I wasn't asked. It did that automatically. > This site has a screenshot near the bottom of the page. It says "Install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record?"
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-debian-squeeze-debian-6.0-with-bind-dovecot-and-nginx-ispconfig-3-p2 If your installer is not asking you that, I'm not sure why. Are you using the graphical installer? Maybe it asks different questions (which I would think would be a bug). > >The next screen should give you some additional options about where to > >install GRUB. > > The 'next' screen merely showed the error. I'm not sure, but I think the > screen after that (i.e., after I clicked "Continue") was the main menu from > which I selected LILO. > > >You want to install it to the 8 GB usb stick, which may be > >/dev/sdb -- but you should make sure. > > Really? Are you saying that at that point the USB thumb drive has a mount > point? I don't think so, but what the hell do I know. Even if it has a mount > point, I wouldn't know what to do. > /dev/sdb is not a mount point. It is just a file representing a device. In this case, the second hard disc -- which is how Linux sees USB sticks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130302004025.gd...@aurora.owens.net
