Installing Fedora 6 prerelease on a USB disk [SOLVED] -> now a GRUB problem !

[Jim Cornette]

Andrea Mastellone wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>>> Now, I am coping with other problem. I have obviously created by the
>>> rescue cd a new initrd image with the usb storage drivers. It is GRUB
>>> that does not work. When I try to boot from the USB disk, only the word
>>> GRUB appears on the screen and the systems freezes, albeit I have told
>>> the Fedora installer to install grub on /dev/sda (and not /dev/hda).
>>> So, can you suggest me a simple but good manual of grub ? I probably
>>> have to reconfigure it, but I can do it from a working FC5 on hda... I
>>> tryed to chroot to the FC6 on usb disk and launched grub-install
>>> /dev/sda, but this is not the correct way :|
>> No ideas of where to hunt for information on getting a USB device
>> booting properly. I was counting on the developers getting USB installs
>> to just work without a lot of fuss. After all, what are we paying them
>> for? :-)
>>
> 
> I have solved that issue, too. :) Basically, I have regenerated the
> device map in grub, issued a grub-install, and then I had to reconfig
> the grub.conf when booting (of course, I have regenerated the initrd
> image including the usb-storage drivers) in the grub-shell minieditor.
> 
> If someone is intrested, I can post the step-by-step procedure.
> 
> Now I writing this email by the USB-disk booted FC6 prerelease.... :)
> 
> Thanks to everyone,
> 
> Andrea
> 

I'd be interested in a clear procedure as to how to install successfully 
to a bootable USB device. I imagine that many others will find such 
advice helpful.
I'll probably give it a shot myself.

Jim

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