Grub and USB

[James Takac]

Hi Karl

On Wednesday 20 August 2008 10:50:14 Karl Larsen wrote:
>     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
>


I've got it going once or twice and from memory I had to edit the refs in 
menu.1st to reflect (hd0,0) as the boot drive is seen as hd0

James