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 10:23:04 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1604209a-e984-43ca-b5b8-9b547bd08de5@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <778c2f0c-ab30-426d-b057-203e79e2213d@googlegroups.com>
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In the grub.cfg below, I fixed "sda1" to "sdb1". Still no go..
On Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 5:59:54 PM UTC+1, jacksprat wrote:
>
> Lilo? Ii haven't given up trying to get grub.cfg right. here is a
> fragment
>
> #
> menuentry 'Void GNU/Linux 4.18.17 [sda1]' {
> insmod gzio
> insmod part_msdos
> insmod ext2
> set root='hd0,msdos1'
> echo 'Loading Linux 4.18.17_1 ...'
> linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.18.17_1 root=/dev/sda1 ro
> echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
> initrd /boot/initramfs-4.18.17_1.img
> }
>
> It is the "set root" line that I suspect is wrong, but if "msdos1"=1st
> partition, why do both "hd0" and "hd1" fail? Close..
>
> On Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 4:40:28 PM UTC+1, space pudim wrote:
>>
>> El mar., 25 de jun. de 2019 16:34, jacksprat <pica...@gmail.com>
>> escribió:
>>
>>> Well, I tried install to the identical pen drive that booted Void Linux
>>> Live, and repeated what I did to grub-install, and the resultant USB drive
>>> booted! However, the boot sequence died running the initramfs, just after
>>> running dracut on the first partition of my HD [/dev/sda1]. I have aleady
>>> seen my error in the grub.cfg file [scream]. This is going too be hard
>>> work, but worth it in the end [?]. Just got to remember how grub.cfg is
>>> coded..
>>>
>>
>> Maybe LILO is still an option?
>>
>>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-25 17:23 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
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 [this message]
2019-06-25 18:32 ` Jeffrey Sheinberg
2019-06-26 5:46 ` jacksprat
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