Installing Ubuntu on external USB HD

[Andrew Johnson]

On 11/7/06, Michael Moore <stuporglue at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was able to get grub to install to the MBR, but I wasn't able to
> configure grub properly to boot Ubuntu. We keep getting Grub error 22.
>
> Does anyone know how to configure this, or know of a good tutorial?

Grub-install has to guess as to how the bios numbers devices.  I've
seen different BIOSes report usb drives differently, so grub-install
might get confused.  I'd suggest you make a dummy file named, say,
/media/usbdisk/THIS_IS_THE_PLACE.  Then boot from a grub floppy and
use 'find /THIS_IS_THE_PLACE' to have grub tell you where the usb
device appears.