m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Bowie Bailey wrote, On 05/26/2010 10:59 AM:
I successfully created an install media on a USB flash drive, but now I have a minor problem installing from it. Whenever I run the installer, it insists on installing grub on /dev/sdb (the flash drive) rather than /dev/sda (the hard drive where I'm installing everything).
Is there a way to convince the installer to put grub in the right place?
If you are installing from a kickstart, or at least preparing the install using KS, yes.
<snip> So, if you're *not*, and you just want to install on a new drive, then the Grand Unified Boot Loader religiously won't let you do what you want, since, it's *sure* (the same way M$ is), that it knows how to do this *so* much better than you do, and if you want to do it any other way, why that's the *wrong* way, and will do everything it can to keep you from doing it the "wrong" way.
Next time I bounce my system at home, I really ought to plug in /dev/hda again, and maybe I can access stuff on it - I had to physically unplug it, because a straight install *refused* to install the boot record in the MBR on /dev/sda....
Agreed. It's truly obnoxious that we can specify which drive to install the OS onto, but we can't specify where to put the boot loader.
What I did was skip the grub install and then install it from the rescue prompt. Unfortunately, this left me with no grub.conf at all, so I had to look at another machine to get the proper format and manually create grub.conf. After that, however, it booted normally. I'm doing a 'yum update' now, which includes a new kernel. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will update my grub.conf properly.