From: jacksprat <picamanic@gmail.com>
To: voidlinux <voidlinux@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Trying to Install on USB drive using GRUB
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 03:33:22 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <062ee18d-0306-4c68-bba6-da0a638f996a@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHpAuDFF5XH89baydRQiZLdnSJjz88ZOie29_AvktdrdGwQVwg@mail.gmail.com>
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My laptop is setup so that it tries USB first, then reverts to hard drive
if no suitable USB device is present.
On Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 10:32:16 AM UTC+1, space pudim wrote:
>
> > My laptop hard drive died, so as an interim solution, I wanted to
> install Void Linux on a removable hard drive [/dev/sdb1].
> >
> > I started with the current 64-bit MUSL live image. The void-installer
> script, run as root, fails to complete, complaining about expecting to find
> an efi setup. Rather than get involved with efi , I tried
> >
> > mkdir /usb
> > mount /dev/sdb1 /usb
> > <create /usb/boot/grub/grub.cfg with suitable menu item>
> > grub-install --target=i384-pc --boot-directory=/usb/boot /dev/sdb
> > umount /usb
> >
> > which completed without errors. However, on reboot, I get the grub menu
> from the failed hard drive.
> >
> > I also ran fdisk on /dev/sdb to mark the partition bootable. What have
> I missed? Thanks.
>
> Back in the days you had to set the drive you wanted to boot on the
> BIOS setup. I'm not sure about EFI (my PC is still BIOS) but I'd
> expect the same.
>
> <3
>
>
> --
> Pudding
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-25 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-25 9:25 jacksprat
2019-06-25 9:33 ` Igor Fontana
2019-06-25 10:33 ` jacksprat [this message]
2019-06-25 10:40 ` Igor Fontana
2019-06-25 11:07 ` jacksprat
2019-06-25 12:56 ` Igor Fontana
2019-06-25 13:38 ` Jeff Pohlmeyer
2019-06-25 13:53 ` jacksprat
2019-06-25 13:58 ` Igor Fontana
2019-06-25 14:07 ` jacksprat
2019-06-25 14:11 ` Igor Fontana
2019-06-25 14:25 ` Jeff Pohlmeyer
2019-06-25 14:37 ` jacksprat
2019-06-25 13:46 ` jacksprat
2019-06-25 15:34 ` jacksprat
2019-06-25 15:40 ` Igor Fontana
2019-06-25 16:59 ` jacksprat
2019-06-25 17:23 ` jacksprat
2019-06-25 18:32 ` Jeffrey Sheinberg
2019-06-26 5:46 ` jacksprat
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