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..
On Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 1:55:11 PM UTC+1, space pudim wrote:
> If I insert the USB drive with the Void Linux live system, then t boots. OK, that probably uses syslinux and not GRUB. Installing GRUB on the hard drive [/dev/sda] always works, so why not /dev/sdb?
Did you try Void Live on the same USB device you want to install it on?
I've seen this many times: some devices get listed as "USB Storage",
and some as "USB HDD" (even sticks), and it won't get matched by the
BIOS, even though it's all USB.
The solution was to select the thing manually from the boot menu - not
the BIOS setup. But then it may be the case that your BIOS is just
unable to boot on that particular device. If you didn't try the Void
Live on the same device, I would advise you to do so.
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Pudding