Grub and USB

[Karl Larsen]

    New Subject. I have a running hard drive connected to my computer 
via a USB port. I need to put grub in the MBR of the USB hard drive OR 
put it on /media/disk/. I have a big problem with this. Grub likes to 
work with (hd1,2) and all my experience has been with things that will 
match that kind of partition location.

    People on this list have said it is a simple matter to get a USB 
hard drive to boot if you put the grub root at /media/disk/. I say you 
can't do that because /media/disk/ is NOT a partition. You might treat 
the whole hard drive as a partition but how? It isn't /dev/sb4 or like 
that. In fact I did a df and it calls the USB hard drive /dev/sdb1. now 
/dev/sdb1 is (hd1,0) which I can work with. I will try getting grub 
running and say:

grub  root (hd1,0)
grub  setup (hd1,0)
grub  quit

This should work.

Karl

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