On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 3:01 PM Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > > On 10/4/20 9:36 AM, Marius Schwarz wrote: > > And still,we do not know why the f33 livedisc does not boot at all when > > inserted early > > AND > > why grub-install /dev/USBDRIVE (correct devicename ofcourse ) is > > overwriting the ssd boot setup, instead of the usbdrive bootconfig. > > You can't use "grub2-install /dev/USBDRIVE", that's for non-EFI systems. > And as Chris explained, you can't use "grub2-install" either or it > will mess things up badly. If you have the usb drive EFI partition > mounted at /boot/efi, then re-installing "grub2-efi" should fix the grub > install on your usb drive.
This is why, for elementary OS image testing or live image testing, it's often safer and faster to do it inside of a virtual system, whether you use KVM, Virtualbox, VMWare, Xen, or whatever. Manipulating your test system's grub settings is somewhat risky. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
