On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 07:25:30PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:16:12PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >>Mark Filipak wrote: > >>>>>GRUB & LILO install failures unexplained - no help. > >>Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders designed > >>to work with a hard drive. You (probably) need to install a > >>different boot loader on a USB stick - and which one is dependent on > >>what your BIOS supports (and, of course, you have to set your BIOS > >>appropriately). > >> > >>Booting from a CD/DVD follows a different process - using isolinux > >>as the boot loader. > >> > >GRUB will work on a USB stick. I have Debian installed on a USB stick > >right now and it uses GRUB. > > > >Syslinux is another way of doing it, but I don't know enough about it to > >comment one way or another. > > > > > > come to think of it, if one is not REALLY careful, it's pretty easy > to install a boot image on a USB stick, but then install the boot > loader on the attached hard drive -- if you don't partition things > properly, and don't use the right options, grub-install will go > ahead and stick the boot loader on your attached hard disk, rather > than the USB stick; or fail when it tries to access a non-existent > MBR on the USB stick that hasn't been partitioned to have one > > in fact, I expect that's what's happening to Mark when he tries to > install GRUB - the installer is either: > a) trying to install on the hdd, which he's disconnected (fail), or, > b) trying to install to the USB stick, which hasn't been partitioned > properly (fail). > I think you're probably right. When I successfully installed Debian and GRUB to a USB stick, I manually paritioned the USB stick with the installer. I did not partition it beforehand, as I think Mark did. Maybe the installer's partitioner does some magic that I don't know about...
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