Installing to a USB Drive without a HD and not making it a "live CD".

[John Heinen]

Goh Lip wrote:
> On 01/30/2010 11:45 PM, Knapp wrote:
>   
>> Hello,  I have a computer with a dead HD. I can boot it with the live
>> Xubuntu CD (other don't work, to big). I can make the USB 8mb drive
>> into a copy of the CD and boot it just fine but when I try to install
>> to the USB Drive, the computer will not boot. How do I make the
>> computer boot from the USB drive as if it were a HD with a normal
>> install on it?
>>     
>
> Douglas, when booting from usb, does the grub2 menu screen appear? If it 
> appears, go to command prompt ('c') and
> type "ls"; note if it is (hd0,1) or (hd1,1).
> If both appear, your hd is 'not dead' technically, then type
> "search -f /boot/grub/grub.cfg" and note output again.
>
> then type
> grub>linux (hd0,x)/vmlinuz root=sdax
> grub>initrd (hd0,x)/initrd.img
> grub>boot
>
> note: if (hd1,x), then change sdax to sdbx
>
> When booted up go to terminal and type
> sudo grub-mkconfig
>
> recheck output that the correct (hd0,x) is used as similar to your 
> search and check uuid number of usb stick to be sure with fdisk.
>
> If okay, then type
> sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
>
>   
>> I hope this is clear. Maybe I need to make my own
>> bootalble ISO with the files I need? For example an ISO with all the
>> updates? Don't know how to do that ether. In any case I have a
>> complete system installed to the USB; if only I could get it to boot.
>> Thanks all.
>>     
>
> Hopefully, that won't be necessary.
>
> regards - goh lip
>
>   
Replace with an old hard drive ?