On 1/17/2017 5:58 PM, Brian wrote:
On Tue 17 Jan 2017 at 14:19:11 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
I just installed Jessie to a USB flash drive.
Unfortunately I mistyped the name of the preseed.cfg file and ran the one
which did not install grub to the target drive.
On a working Jessie machine I inserted the flash drive and then ran
update-grub.
I was then able to boot the copy of Debian residing on the flash drive.
It appears to run properly and is now installing some packages that
intentionally had not been installed by preseeding.
Looking for instructions for installing Grub to an existing drive I found
https://wiki.debian.org/Installation+Archive+USBStick?highlight=%28grub-install%29|%28jessie%29
.
It was written to address a different situation.
It seems to say that all I have to do is run
/usr/sbin/grub-install --boot-directory=<mount_point>/boot /dev/sdb
Is that correct for my situation?
Yes.
So incomplete as to be *WRONG* !
There is enough of grub placed on the flash drive to get a grub>
command line prompt.
<TAB> does list available commands but scrolls off screen too
fast to be useful.
May I humbly beg a more useful answer?
