Hi Derek On Thursday 07 August 2008 22:16:24 Derek Broughton wrote: > James Takac wrote: > > I find myself in an interesting spot at the moment. I have an eee pc > > which I was dual booting 2 ubuntu's. one on the default drive and one on > > a 16 gig usb drive. I reinstalled the default Xandros on the original > > drive and it seems there's no grub on the usb drive so I'm looking for > > either how to install grub on the usb stick or to modify grub on the > > xandros install to point to ubuntu on the usb stick as well allowing a > > dual boot > > When it comes to booting from multiple devices, I've taken to installing > grub on each device, and chain load from the primary to the secondary. So > you'd need to "grub-install" to the external (in either case - should be > just "grub-install --root-directory=/path-to-root-on-external /dev/xxx" ). > To chainload to the secondary, modify the primary's /boot/grub/menu.lst to > include: > title External drive > root (hd1,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > -- > derek
I'll see if I can work that out over the weekend. However while at work I had another thought, i.e. a variation of using the live cd to reinstall grub (usually after windows is reinstalled) but for the usb drive Thx James -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
