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. -- Brian.
