Grub installation on USB disk
garys at email.com
garys at email.com
Thu Oct 4 07:28:54 UTC 2007
Antonio Montagnani wrote:
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)
>
> When I try to install Grub by Webmin on my USB disk in order to boot
> directly from my USB disk I get:
>
> [ 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???
Gary wrote: Don't know. Is your usb disk really hd0 ?
try:
grub> root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
If I remember correctly, I think I've gotten failed installs of grub by adding ,0 at setup
- not positive though. ----gary
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