On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 21:06 +0530, J.Bakshi wrote: > Dear list, > > With legacy GRUB I have no problem to install it on a pendrive and boot the > grub legacy from that drive. Presently I am trying to do the same with grub2. > > My pendrive is 8 GB Transcend with 2 partitions. /devsda1 is fat32 (2 GB) > and /dev/sda2 is reiserfs (6 GB). > > My system is debian lenny and grub Version: 1.96+20080724-16 > > I have mounted my pendrive as ( the reiserfs partition) > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/pen > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Then install grub as > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/pen /dev/sda2 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This installs the bootloader to the first sector of the partition /dev/sda2, not to the MBR (the first sector of the whole drive). BIOS loads the code from the MBR. To install GRUB2 to the MBR of the drive, use grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/pen /dev/sda > Grub install reports a success message. Then I copy grub.cfg from my HDD to > the pendrive at the same location i.e /mnt/pen/boot/grub/ > > Now If I try to boot from the pendrive it says found boot record ...OK > and then displays GRUB but nothing further happens :-( Perhaps you have an old GRUB bootloader in the MBR but it fails to find its files. I checked reiserfs support in the current GRUB2 and it appears to be OK. > What might be the wrong I have done here ? You installed the bootloader to a place where BIOS cannot access it. It's not a regression. grub-legacy would have the same problem. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
