Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 4/10/12, Patrick DERWAEL patrick@derwael.be wrote:
Emmanuel, I used a totally different approach by using VMware: the trick is to install on a physical device which is the USB drive. When the installation requests a reboot, simply boot on your USB and off you go!
That is pretty much what I did. Boot DVD 1 with a USB DVD drive, install to /dev/sda which is the USB flash drive. When the installation requests a reboot, shutdown, remove as well as leave the DVD drive around and reboot... and only grub prompt or Error 21.
Maybe there's a minor but critical step I'm missing so I'll appreciate it if you could outline in greater details how you did it.
I've tried installing grub to both MBR i.e. /dev/sda as well as first partition /dev/sda1 but neither works.
Two questions: a) are you sure that the USB key is /dev/sda, and b) does your system offer a boot menu, or only go into setup to tell it to boot off the USB key?
Oh, and in fdisk, is the partition flagged bootable?
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