From: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Faulty BIOS or GRUB issue (USB Stick won't boot)
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:22:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC466A9.8030805@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AC3AD67.2020401@impulze.org>
Daniel Mierswa wrote:
> On 30.09.2009 08:20, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>> [...] A workaround could be following:
>> losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/sdb1
> Why do I need to create a loop device for the first partition?
>
To simulate brain damage of your BIOS
>> grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/usb /dev/loop0
> This will give a GRUB error, saying that there's no matching device
> for /dev/loop0 in my device.map. After removing the device.map and by
> letting GRUB create it automatically, I get "Invalid device
> `/dev/loop0'."
>
echo '(hd0) /dev/loop0' > /boot/grub/device.map
>> Don't forget to apply fezie's bugfix for root-directory
> Yeah this is already applied since I tried to install it into the
> primary partition via "--root-directory=/mnt/mount /dev/sdb1".
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-01 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-30 1:12 Faulty BIOS or GRUB issue (USB Stick won't boot) Daniel Mierswa
2009-09-30 6:20 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-09-30 19:11 ` Daniel Mierswa
2009-10-01 8:22 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2009-10-01 13:05 ` Daniel Mierswa
2009-09-30 8:26 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2009-09-30 19:10 ` Daniel Mierswa
2009-10-01 8:49 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2009-10-01 13:05 ` Daniel Mierswa
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