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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