Still i don't know how to install grub 2 on USB
what i am planning to do is i have installed ubuntu on usb and upgraded grub to grub2 so now will delete everything else place the iso file and then modify the grub.cfg file and see if that works

I know this sounds like a bit gross but i don't mind trying

Ok a fresh day and i am trying it again.
any ideas guys.

Did you read any of these for installing grub2 to usb?
did you get grub2 installed to ubuntu?
http://diliman-networks.com/?page_id=21
http://blog.dipinkrishna.info/2009/0...est-grub2.html
http://www.puredarwin.org/developers/booting/grub2
http://www.mail-archive.com/grub-dev.../msg02488.html

what are stuck on??

I got grub2 on ubuntu but I cannot get it on the USB.
I am stuck on that

None of those how-to's for installing grub2 to usb worked?

what exacts steps are you using?
is installing grub2 to usb that much different than installing grub?

for installing grub i used to go to grub> prompt
then on grub prompt I used to do root (hd1,0)
and then setup (hd1)

But now i cannot get the grub prompt
so i have to look for another way

you didn't read the how-to dude

it's easy, here's syntax for grub2 to usb
(in this exampl MY HD IS UNPLUGGED FROM MOTHERBOARD!)

do not do this unless your booting from a livecd(ubuntu-9.04)
and your usb is plugged in and hd is unplugged!)

assuming USB is 1 single partition, ext2 or ext3, etc
mine is desgnated by ubuntu as /dev/sdb1 /media/disk

so it would be

and then to set it up as 1st hd, this way it will be recognized as (hd0,0)
and boot even on some computers that won't boot usb(with plop bootmanager)

note that in grub2 menu.lst is now called grub.cfg

read that one
http://diliman-networks.com/?page_id=21

let me try it and get back to you

oh wait
change that
to that
sorry

grub-setup command not found error

how to go ahead????????????

I'm at aloss too

Wait I was trying this on fedora where i installed grub2 i am not sure if that the way to go

I would try this on ubuntu which is getting ready in a while(i m installing it)

let me try from that and will get back to you if this works

I think the only way to boot from an ISO on a flash is to try to make the flash drive appear to bios as a usb cd/dvd drive. The ISO would have to be applied to the drive exactly as it would have been to the disk.

I think I have read how before but it may only work on some very few flash drives.

There really is no great need to do this as far as I can tell. What would be the point of all this. Just use any of the few hundred ways to install to usb that we use.

Hi jefro

The whole point of this is to make things easier.
I did find a way of doing it with the use of extlinux where in just install the bootloader and mount the iso and then copy its content on the flash drive but that is not what i want

I know its a pain but if you consider burning a DVD everytime this pain looks worth as its just one time

I too don't understand why you don't just boot off usb
with the extracted dvd?

but, hey, we learn by doing, leastways me

much simpler to boot that way
you can even mayube find a way
to boot the reg redhat as read-only
and have somekind of persistence file/archive that kepps changes
perisitent
though this would probably have to be scipted up or changes made...?

actually, jeffro, grub2 can do this for some distro's
( http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2009/0...iso-via-grub2/ )

but redhat?