Harvey Muller wrote:
>2. Prepare grub boot medium. The grub manual gives directions for preparing
>a grub boot disk from floppy, and cdrom. I >elected to use a spare flashdrive
>that wasn't busy, as I am able to boot from USB. This is how I did it.
>
> a. Identify device, block count, and size of USB flashdrive. I used a 128M
> sized model because I didn't have anything >smaller. Insert the flashdrive
> into a running linux system (used LiveCD) with a terminal open. Note the
> block count and >size. Once the device settled I learned that my particular
> device reported as sda, had 254208 blocks at 512 bytes each.
>
> b. Use dd to zero out the flashdrive. Using the above information these
> are the commands I used:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
I didn't catch this until after I hit 'send'. The dd command in full, was this:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=254208
The first command would still work, but the corrected command above is cleaner.
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