Fwd: Grub installation on USB disk

[Doncho N. Gunchev]

On Wednesday 2007-10-03 13:15:23 antonio montagnani wrote:
> When I try to install Grub by Webmin on my USB disk in order to boot
> directly from my USB disk I get:
> 
> 
> Installing GRUB on SCSI device A partition 1 with commands root
> (hd0,0) and setup (hd0,0) ..
> 
> 
>     GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
> 
>  [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
>    lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
>    completions of a device/filename.]
> grub> root (hd0,0)
>  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> grub> setup (hd0,0)
>  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
>  Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
>  Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes
>  Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
>  Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this is not fatal)
>  Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this is not fatal)
>  Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0,0) /grub/stage2 p /grub/grub.conf
> "... succeeded
> Done.
> grub>
> 
> .. install failed!
> 
> What does it mean???
> 
You installed grub on (hd0,0) (/dev/sda1), which is your /boot or / partition
I guess. You should install grub to /dev/sda or (hd0) in grub terms.

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  Doncho N. Gunchev, GPG key ID: 0EF40B9E, Key server: pgp.mit.edu