Wow!
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Originally Posted by tofino_surfer
None of this is required. A modern USB flash drive is a block device similar to an SSD or HDD. It can be easily formatted with fdisk or GParted just as with a regular SSD or HDD. There is no need to use any "flashdrive tools".
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True, but how many Linux beginners will even look at gparted or fdisk if they find (or are familiar with) a nice, simple GUI tool. Don't forget that a lot of ex-windows folk end up reading this forum. Start simple.. progress from there..
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There is also no need to use FAT32 as ext234 support is built into the default grub core.img second stage. The only reason to use FAT is if you are installing grub to a partition /dev/sdXY as opposed to the whole drive with /dev/sdX. When installing grub to the drive the core.img second stage goes into the MBR gap between the MBR and the first partition. This is usually at least 31K but can be made as large as possible.
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True, but again, most beginners associate flashdrives with fat16/32. Also, for a hybrid MBR/EFI flashdrive some (most?-but certainly not quite all) UEFI firmwares will only work with a fat16/32 partition..
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This is a nonexistent problem. If you simply use fdisk or (G)parted to format the drive in legacy mode it will of course create a MBR. You then create at least one partition and format it with ext4. You can specify the starting sector of the first partition to make the "MBR gap" as large as you like.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...nstalling_GRUB
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Yes, totally correct.. but again, how many new(er) users are aware of this.. Not all tools correctly create a bootable MBR on a USB flashdrive properly.
I was going add further posts here, covering other, better methods..
I don't think I'll bother now.
