Hi all, I'm running into a pickle trying to install grub on another drive connected to the same system.

Here's what I have:
hdb - hard drive,
hdc - CompactFlask card

I want to setup a small linux system to boot from my CompactFlash, but I can't seem to passed grub-install.

Here's what I did so far,
mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc
fdisk /dev/hdc
Create a single linux partition (w/ bootable flag on)

Now I've tried afew way to get grub to install, first one:

# grub-install hd1
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

But after I do this, my file system becomes full:
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb2 18113556 9715888 7477548 57% /
/dev/hdb1 101086 11044 84823 12% /boot
none 250460 0 250460 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdc 50506920 49713809 0 100% /mnt/hdc


I'll investigate more, but this is wher I am so far...

Thanks,
JF

grub-install is a shocker but me thinks grub can not boot usb drives or other such fancies

do a search on the hcl list for your flash card and see what success U can expect?

if I do this I will

grub-install /dev/sda1

and then vi /boot/grub/grub.conf modify it and change root=/dev/sda1

but first you should know if the flashdisk is scsi?

and I think grub is not support for scsi boot up unless your bios support it.

Don't use fdisk on Compact Flash.
Just

Not now, John!

I don't have these playthings but well done on helping poster.
I have taken the liberty of looking at some of your other posts, to steal your ideas.....heh heh
anyhow if you care to read my tutorial you can boot from a grub cdr.

I am taken the liberty of including your idea in the tutorial but it won't appear in the answer link for some time, with credit of course. here
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...postid=1208786

can you spare some time to proof read it? (your bit not necessarily the whole lot, heh heh)

I've read that tutorial. Great job!

Not now, John!

what I meant err is the liberty of saying your way to format thumb usb drives
any probs with what I have written

have I missed out some stuff......feel free to be blunt I am used to it

I'd prefer plain english, mate.
I needed some time to discover what err, probs etc. was...
Well, you can also mention that it's waste of memory space just to hold boot loader on 128 MB (or more) Flash Disk.
So Flash disk could be formated with FAT32 file system and be used for transfering files, also.
So, other way of doing the sam job would be:

bonzer John

I was thinking that some people may prefer to have a emergency usb drive instead of a cdr?

my nephew has a usb thumb drive already formatted when he bought it as a MS format to transfer files so I am not worried about those (l)users.

My poor english request was to see if the syntax was acceptable to you?

Sure.

John

finally added your MS suggestion but ignoring giving our tender reader any advice.....well ok I can give them lots advice but they don't listen.......heh heh........to the howto.

thankyou for your patience