Maverick usb install media, whether created from Lucid or Maverick will still create a non-booting target usb device (thumbdrive or usb hdd) because the wrong device (sdc instead of sdb) is used. To recap, at install time, the Windows internal hard disk gets sda, the boot media gets sdb, and the target usb gets sdc. The grub paragraphs all are written to the target with these device assignments, even though it is certain that the boot media will not be present when you boot the target. Using a CDROM install media avoids this problem since the drive is not given an interferring sdx device. The usual fix is necessary: At target boot, edit the grub paragraph to reduce the device references by one (hd2 -> hd1, and sdc -> sdb), for the first boot, then after a successful boot, immediately sudo update-grub. Without the boot media, the devices will be correct for the next reboot. fstab uses UUID, so is ok.
-- Grub Installer gets devices wrong when running from live USB https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/384633 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
