On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:21:41 -0400 Pavel Roskin <pro...@gnu.org> wrote:
> 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 thanks a lot. Actually the grub did not recognise the device node of pendrive. I re-generate the device map with pendrive attached at USB and now I have no problem to install grub on it. And yes; it must be grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/pen /dev/sda Thanks > > 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. > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
