Grub and USB

[Narcissus]

Therefore it's a good idea to try "grub>find /grub/menu.lst" if run into
such confusion

2008/8/20 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>

> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Sorry, wrong!  The BIOS device you're booting from is HD0!  So menu.lst
> needs to respect that, though:
>
> > I will try getting grub running and say:
> >
> > grub  root (hd1,0)
> > grub  setup (hd1,0)
> > grub  quit
> >
> > This should work.
>
> It should, but that's why it's easier to use "grub-install" with actual
> /dev
> names, because now you run into the confusion between what is (hd1) _now_
> and what will be (hd1) when you boot.
>
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> derek
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