On Wed 18 Jan 2017 at 04:55:05 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > 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.
At the prompt; set pager=1 > May I humbly beg a more useful answer? Read grub-install(8) to check the correctness of the command. -- Brian.
