Another Ubuntu on external drive question

[Derek Broughton]

Kent Paul Dolan wrote:

>> From: Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> 
> 
>> I did say that...  They're both set to boot from
>> USB, and they don't.
> 
> Are you sure you haven't accidentally installed GRUB
> _on_ the USB device,

Accidentally?  I wanted Grub on the USB device.  I'd tried it in both the
MBR and the superblock of the first partition.

> and things are getting confused 
> _there_? As the prior correspondent said, if you get
> to GRUB somehow, you've gone too far already, you
> should never see GRUB if you're set to boot from the
> USB first.

Sure I should - and one of the problems is that I didn't do enough to make
the grub menus on the USB and internal drives look different.  Even when I
did eventually get it to boot from USB, I didn't initially notice that I
was on the right device!
-- 
derek