Hi. So I'm having this problem with grub (2) and a pen drive (and probably the bios of the laptop, because that seems to be the source of the problem). I've a fully encrypted linux installation and I use a usb pen drive to boot into it. The pen drive contains the usual stuff that goes in a /boot dir (kernel image initrd the grub subdir etc). I installed grub on the pen drive with this command (from another linux installation)
grub-install --recheck --boot-directory=/mnt/sdb1/boot/ /dev/sdb where /dev/sdb is the pern drive, /dev/sdb1 (mounted on /mnt/sdb1) is the first partition on the pen drive where the /boot dir is. Installation ends without errors. But when I try to boot from the pen drive I get the first few words from grub and after the phrase "Welcome to GRUB!" I get a blinking cursor and the laptop is in hard lock (i.e. crtl-alt-canc doesn't work and I have to turn it off and on again). Now the peculiar thing is that if I tried the pen drive on any other computer I could get my hands on and it works perfectly. So the installation on the pen drive seems to have been done correctly but on that particular laptop grub hangs after stage 1. I don't know if the old terminology of grub 1 still applies to grub 2 but anyway grub seems to hang in a phase where it has to read part of its code by accessing directly the pen drive (and not through a file system as in the later stage). Some random notes on the system: -I'm using debian unstable with grub 2.00 -no UEFI (well the bios is probably UEFI since it's InsydeH2O but the legacy interface is used) or GPT partition -as I wrote the installation of grub on that pen drive works perfectly on a many other computers, some with uefi some without. Any ideas? Thanks john _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list Help-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub