From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Mt4aW-00076M-Ua for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:11:44 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mt4aV-00074t-9g for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:11:43 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mt4aU-00074X-QM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:11:42 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33733 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mt4aU-00074L-MH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:11:42 -0400 Received: from eta-ori.net ([91.121.142.51]:48621 helo=orion.eta-ori.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mt4aU-0006UZ-B0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:11:42 -0400 Received: from [10.0.0.151] (p4FEDF97B.dip.t-dialin.net [79.237.249.123]) by orion.eta-ori.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C549860974E for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:11:41 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4AC3AD67.2020401@impulze.org> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:11:35 +0200 From: Daniel Mierswa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090930 Thunderbird/3.0pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <4AC2B06F.5020302@impulze.org> <4AC2F8C4.3000909@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AC2F8C4.3000909@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Faulty BIOS or GRUB issue (USB Stick won't boot) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:11:43 -0000 On 30.09.2009 08:20, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > [...] A workaround could be following: > losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/sdb1 Why do I need to create a loop device for the first partition? > grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/usb /dev/loop0 This will give a GRUB error, saying that there's no matching device for /dev/loop0 in my device.map. After removing the device.map and by letting GRUB create it automatically, I get "Invalid device `/dev/loop0'." > Don't forget to apply fezie's bugfix for root-directory Yeah this is already applied since I tried to install it into the primary partition via "--root-directory=/mnt/mount /dev/sdb1". -- Mierswa, Daniel If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do. --- Linus Torvalds, comp.os.linux.advocacy, 1996/07/22