m.roth at 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. -- Bowie