Grub and USB

[David Fox]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>    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

It should be. Remember that the mount point is a partition - it's
simply mounted at /media/disk, when you go into that directory, you
are basically using the drive and/or partition. It should be a simple
matter for grub to do this by adding the --grub-install /media/disk
/dev/sdb) if that is the right device for your drive and/or stick.

grub should easily figure out everything relative to /dev/sdb being
the root of the new setup, because you're going to be booting off of
it, not the hard drive normally.


> 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

No, the usb hard drive is still /dev/sdb, and the first partition is
on /dev/sdb1, and grub is zero based, so (hd0 = the partition of the
usb stick, which should be /dev/sdb). I don't believe grub actually
references the device, but only relative locations within it.
Otherwise it would be more difficult, because you can't depend that
the usb stick will be /dev/sdb when you try and boot it.


> Karl