On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 06:33, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 13:51 -0700, Jim Cromie wrote: > > when you say 'installed on boot disk', I have several ways to interpret > > that: > > 1. grub-stage1 is in the MBR > > 2. grub 1.5 and 2 are in /boot/grub/ (on FC-3 at least) > > 3. both the above. > > > > in my case, Ive got extlinux installed to MBR on /dev/sda, > > > > I probably should have been more clear. > By boot disk, I mean the disk that the bios is reading the MBR from (the > boot disk). > On your laptop that would likely be /dev/hda, on the usb device you > indicate it as /dev/sda. If you want to use grub for booting from the > usb drive without another drive hosting grub you will likely need to > install grub on the boot sector of /dev/sda > > > > > >If I understand your plans correctly, you want this usb drive to be able > > >to boot standalone. > > > > > > > > that is the plan. I believe that what's missing is that you don't have USB support compiled into the kernel and not as modules. I've done it before and it's do-able. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:29:07 up 7:17, 7 users, load average: 1.62, 1.61, 1.60
