On 2013/3/1 7:03 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/3/1 3:16 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Mark Filipak wrote:
GRUB & LILO install failures unexplained - no help.
Well that makes perfect sense. GRUB and LILO boot loaders designed to work
with a hard drive. You (probably) need to install a different boot loader on a
USB stick - and which one is dependent on what your BIOS supports (and, of
course, you have to set your BIOS appropriately).
Booting from a CD/DVD follows a different process - using isolinux as the boot
loader.
Booting from a USB stick follows yet another process, and which process is
somewhat dependent on what your BIOS supports. I'm a little fggy on the
details (haven't done it it a while), but some BIOSs know how to boot from a
USB stick, others have a mode called USBHDD, where they treat the USB stick as
if it's a hard drive - which means you have to play some games in the USB setup
to make it look like a hard drive, with an MBR and all. As I recall, syslinux
is one way to boot from a USB stick.
See http://wiki.debian.org/BootProcess for more details.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en for installing on a
USB stick
(when in doubt, FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS)
Try doing a basic installation from
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual before you start trying
more complicated things.
Miles, I'm already booting from USB. I don't need help there. And a basic
installation per your link is out of the question. I recall something about
isolinux from a few years ago, but during installation, I'm presented only with
GRUB (actually, that is automatically tried) or LILO.
First off, I'm going to repeat: STOP SENDING TWO COPIES OF YOUR EMAILS. It's
simply rude. Reply to the list or not at all.
Second, obviously you're missing some steps in the installation, and/or making
some wrong choices. If you're not going to follow the steps in the
instructions, don't expect folks to help you clean up things that are a result
of not configuring something early on. Right off the bat, there's a lot of
material early on about how to configure various boot media - that catches up
with you when it becomes time to install a boot loader.
If you're only being presented by the choice of GRUB or LILO, while trying to
install on a USB stick, then you messed something up early on. Or more to the
point, a USB installation is non-standard, it requires special configuration,
and you're obviously skipping some key step.
Miles. will you kindly stop responding to me.
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