On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 18:44:55 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: > Regarding installing onto the USB hard drive... > > I booted from USB thumb drive, then tried to install from that (using > its built-in Debian Installer) onto a USB hard drive. That also > failed, same problem as when I attempted to install to a 2nd USB thumb > drive: GRUB failed (automatically) and then LILO failed (manually > selected). I aborted the installation. > > Unfortunately, the experiment failed. As I originally thought, the > problem is not with flash structures, its with USB implementation. Or, > at least, that's how it appears.
Appearences are deceptive. The fundamental cause of the problem and its solution has nothing to do with USB. [Snip] > Now I'm going to go back to attempting to install from USB flash stick > to USB hard drive... (stay tuned to this channel). Any chance of a sight of what syslog reports when GRUB fails to install? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130301235840.GI14686@desktop
