Dear All, Need some help on installing grub 1.99 onto USB stick;
1) I need to install grub onto a USB stick that's detected as a floppy in BIOS. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall.html listed below steps to install grub onto USB-FDD disk: # losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/sdb1 # mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/usb # grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/usb/bugbios --force --allow-floppy /dev/loop0 I am trying to install from netbsd machine. I couldn't find losetup utility in netbsd. Is there any other method by which I could install grub onto USB from netbsd. 2) I have a different machine on which USB stick is getting detected as Mass Storage device. And I tried to install grub using below steps: 1) fdisk sd0 (created partition 0 and made it active) 2) disklabel sd0 (created partition sd0a) 3) newfs_msdos /dev/rsd0a 4) mount /dev/sd0a /mnt 5) grub-install --no-floppy --boot-directory=/mnt --force /dev/rsd0a But when I tried to select USB as first boot device in BIOS, I get blank screen and I don't see grub prompt. What could be the issue? And I also get below errors when I don't use --force option in grub-install: grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partitionless disk or to a partition. This is a BAD idea.. grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged.. grub-setup: error: will not proceed with blocklists. What does the above errors indicate? Appreciate any pointers/help. Thanks & Regards, Rajasekhar _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
