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Re: [opensuse] Installing 10.3 to a USB external drive?
- From: Nick Zentena <zentena@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:31:02 -0400
- Message-id: <200709301731.02387.zentena@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 29 September 2007 07:19, Nick Zentena wrote:
> On Friday 28 September 2007 19:59, Rajko M. wrote:
> > Yeah.
> >
> > I said to install all, including grub, on USB stick and change only BIOS
> > boot sequence to include USB before HD. That way when you take USB out,
> > computer will boot from hard disk as before.
>
> I was afraid you say that. With 10.3 RC1 grub either seems to work but
> when I reboot I get the error 21. Or if I do the grub from the rescue disk
> I get an error message claiming the disk doesn't exist.
>
> Grub is happy to write to the internal disk.
>
> I'll try again later today and post the fdisk output.
>
> Nick
I give up.
During installs I get a silent failure when trying to put grub on the USB
drive.
If I try doing it from the rescue system it can't find the drive and gives me
an error.
When 10.3 is fully released I'll try again.
Nick
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> On Friday 28 September 2007 19:59, Rajko M. wrote:
> > Yeah.
> >
> > I said to install all, including grub, on USB stick and change only BIOS
> > boot sequence to include USB before HD. That way when you take USB out,
> > computer will boot from hard disk as before.
>
> I was afraid you say that. With 10.3 RC1 grub either seems to work but
> when I reboot I get the error 21. Or if I do the grub from the rescue disk
> I get an error message claiming the disk doesn't exist.
>
> Grub is happy to write to the internal disk.
>
> I'll try again later today and post the fdisk output.
>
> Nick
I give up.
During installs I get a silent failure when trying to put grub on the USB
drive.
If I try doing it from the rescue system it can't find the drive and gives me
an error.
When 10.3 is fully released I'll try again.
Nick
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