First of all, you should really consider Owen's suggestion to use UUID to boot USB stick.
Ref: Booting with grub on usb-flash-pen http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/live/grml/grml04-Boot/ar01s02.html Now back to your specific question... On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:27:47 +0000, Caesium 5 wrote: > Just install Debian onto a 8GB usb thumbdrive. However, during the > installatin, there's an error during installing of grub. Completed the > installation without grub installed. > > I googled high and low and many articles points to the command below > > Command : grub-install [OPTION] install_device > Example : grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/hda1 > > Unfortunately, when I plug this usb thumb drive into my computer (Debian > Lenny, KDE), it was detected as > /media/Rain and system:/media/sdf1 > > I've tried but is unable to fit the usb location into the above command. Get down to command line (by launching kconsole/xterm etc) and all will be clear: do mount you may see /dev/sdf1 on /media/sdf1 type .... that tells your the USB device and its mount point. Then apply to grub-install: grub-install --root-directory=/media/sdf1 /dev/sdf1 Ref: http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/disk/boot/boot06-Grub/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/disk/boot/boot06-Grub/ar01s09.html -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
