RE: Grub/Linux on USB-Stick?

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello from Gregg C Levine
Well yes. Assuming your computer is new enough to handle booting from
a USB attached device, your "stick", a Fob type device, such as the
Disk On Key device from M-SYS, and it shows up under the /dev/sda
settings for SCSI devices, you should select the correct GRUB settings
for SCSI devices. Of course this presupposes that the BIOS recognizes
USB devices for booting from, and that you have booted from it, using
a normal loader before this.
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> Subject: Grub/Linux on USB-Stick?
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to prepare a USB stick with Linux and grub to
> boot from the USB stick.
> 
> On the installation machine the USB stick is /dev/sda, so
> I use the grub commands
> 
> root (hd1,0)
> setup (hd1)
> 
> 
> Output:
> 
> Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
> 
> 
>     GNU GRUB  version 0.94  (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 (hd1,0)
>  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> grub> setup (hd1)
>  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
>  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
>  Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
>  Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd1)"...  15 sectors are
>  embedded.
> succeeded
>  Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd1) (hd1)1+15 p
>  (hd1,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
> Done.
> 
> 
> 
> But when booting a PC with  that stick it just prints ...stage2...
> and then directly starts the boot block of the built in hard disk
> instead of the USB stick.
> 
> Can you give me any hint?
> 
> regards
> Hadmut
> 
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