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General TC => General TC Talk => Topic started by: linus72 on June 01, 2009, 09:28:17 PM

Title: Grub Issues with USB install-solved
Post by: linus72 on June 01, 2009, 09:28:17 PM

 ;D
What's up gang?
OK, Today I was playing with my new TC-1.4.3-USB with grub or syslinux

Well, the other day I had installed grub to my 2GB USB and wanted to use my 4GB USB instead.
I formatted my USB ext3, set boot flag and copied tc,etc to USB
I then unhooked my HD and installed Grub to USB using Ubuntu-SE livecd

"sudo grub"
grub> "root (hd0,0)"

Usually I would get a prompt here saying-
filesysytem ext2 etc etc etc
Instead NOTHING
uh-huh?
So, I tried-
grub> "setup (hd0)"

OK, that worked and it installed correctly....
I rebooted and-
"Error2"!!! :P

Now, then, some background-
Earlier in the day I had changed by BIOS boot order from
HD
Floppy
CDROM

TO-

Floppy
CDROM
HD

I changed the boot order back to-
HD
Floppy
CDROM

and Grub booted up fine!!

Weird huh?
For reference my PC is a HP Pavillion AMD Athlon64 3300+ 2.4Ghz
So, another grub problem solved.
Did anyone else know about this or similar quircks with Grub??

Title: Re: Grub Issues with USB install-solved
Post by: alu on June 02, 2009, 02:59:20 AM

i have installed grub on a usb-flash drive 8gb from transcend yesterday without issue, and regarding your post, i believe to remember a post on this forum saying that using the grub extension from the tc repositories was a must-do. maybe this is the reason why you have got this error. my suggestion: use the grub extension from the tc repositories and follow the how-to given with the extension in order to format a usb pendrive, and you should good to go within 10 min.