Trying to install on USB Stick with GRUB

[ManDay]

Hello,

I'm trying to install Gentoo essentials on a USB-Stick. But not with syslinux and as shown in the "Liveusb HOWTO", but with GRUB. So what I did is the following:

* Purge the USB-Stick /dev/sdc with dd
* Use cfdisk to create a MBR and partition table with one partition sdc1, bootable, maximized, linux
* mke2fs on /dev/sdc1
* tune2fs
* mkdir /boot/grub and copied all the required GRUB-files from my local amd64-installation
* Modified grub's device.map, ran grub --no-floppy and executed root (hd2,0) ... setup (hd2). There I got:

Running "embed /boot/grub/embed/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd2,0)"...failed (this is not fatal)

but at the end "Success"
* Altered the menu.lst


But when I trie to boot from the stick, nothing happens and the computer boots as normal. I've never booted from a USB-Stick so I can't tell whether the flash drive is configured correctly and my BIOS just doesnt like it, or if something else is wrong.

Thanks for your help.

[NeddySeagoon]

ManDay,

In your BIOS, set USB boot as a higher priority than HDD boot.
The BIOs is not checking for USB as it finds the HDD first
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NeddySeagoon

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those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[ManDay]

Hi NeddySeagon,

I've tried to do that but I don't get it to boot from USB. Even if I disable boot frm HDD completely and only leave several USB-**** options, it will boot from HDD.

In the BIOS I can choose from

[ 4 Boot devices which have "USB" in the name - ill edit them in after i will have restarted my computer next time ]

[NeddySeagoon]

ManDay,

Check on your USB drive that exactly one partition has the bootable flag set.
Some BIOSes insist on this.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.