Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 4/10/12, Patrick DERWAEL <patrick at 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? mark