Re: USB drive install

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > You can also add a chainload from the Grub config in sda to load the 
> > Grub install on the USB drive. You will have to remap the drive as 
> > part of the stanza so that the USB drive becomes BIOS drive 0.
> >
> > title USB boot
> >     map (hd0) (hd1)
> >     map (hd1) (hd0)
> >     chainload (hd0)
> Thank you for the words of wisdom Mikkel and Mike. I have to think about 
> this a bit, because I have installed (on a server) FC8 (32 bit) on one 
> drive and 64 bit on another, using the 32 bit sda MBR and boot partition 
> and just pointing to the sdb boot from the boot partition on sda. But I 
> will be careful not to botch the existing install, and if it doesn't 
> work as expected I'll play with the remap. My plan is to get the FC9 
> boot by just manually selecting an alternate stanza of the grub.conf, 
> but if that doesn't work I know what to try next.
On your setup, you will have to change things slightly - my stanza 
was for a system having only one drive. For you, you would need:

title USB boot
     map (hd0) (hd2)
     map (hd2) (hd0)
     chainload (hd0)

You also have the option of telling the BIOS to boot from the USB 
drive...

Mikkel
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