On 30.09.2009 10:26, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
Can you do a
fdisk -u -l /dev/sdb
But of course.
Disk /dev/usb1: 1041 MB, 1041961984 bytes
33 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1010 cylinders, total 2035082 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
If the first partition of the usb stick starts at sector less than 63,
grub has probably not been installed due to lack of embedded area.
Yes I've seen that by searching the web. If that's the case grub-install
would complain that it cannot embed core.img into the header, wouldn't
it? Either way I've checked the size of core.img:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23784 2009-09-30 20:59 /mnt/root/boot/grub/core.img
So it would require ~50 Sectors, since the partition starts at sector 62
it _should_ work, no? I think i can remember setting a different
sectors/track (above 63) back in the days but it didn't change any
behaviour on boot.
--
Mierswa, Daniel
If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply
know better than you do.
--- Linus Torvalds, comp.os.linux.advocacy, 1996/07/22
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