From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MtGvb-0002Ql-Ht for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:22:19 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MtGvZ-0002PZ-3L for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:22:17 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MtGvT-0002NS-PD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:22:16 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38897 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MtGvT-0002NP-JE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:22:11 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f208.google.com ([209.85.219.208]:42572) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MtGvS-0000q4-Na for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:22:10 -0400 Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so5191416ewy.31 for ; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:22:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=29iVWgW9jm0a3fM6ZF2nYNA5uPeJhpxVJ926FWCEE3w=; b=YhhCxoW5G7BPduGNstkvkPqqUzFXnnilNx4PGVOBm2KcKFuvv75L7Qur4mJ+Tw+vOV XiMA+QFqBpdLe1Ffvvw5W21vs3alEOnTcUK9pmMG7XzsFAiMtnFfpAdlgLkCT9kLszfj 2BJs5qNZEzEYgTBHrcTKB2m2QYBG3Dqt0L/ao= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Bb1/qUZXZXfaTLUPCM5+5KLoIgbmBRPrC8zO4oMJXq5Fn+sWpJMPv6s2vhKxDJ5YO4 WOsOCGLyUOdj9cWfjk8YH3rZMD9OIzWVELpFXinJS/okenX0i4UUkNRfVcQ5YtHM3d2U 7+/BeSU1vRGLCwq9G7lM9iTsiw9Jpl3wuu1dA= Received: by 10.211.154.18 with SMTP id g18mr3696703ebo.65.1254385328512; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.162.63.44? (gprs37.swisscom-mobile.ch [193.247.250.37]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm1491978eyh.24.2009.10.01.01.22.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AC466A9.8030805@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:22:01 +0200 From: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090701) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <4AC2B06F.5020302@impulze.org> <4AC2F8C4.3000909@gmail.com> <4AC3AD67.2020401@impulze.org> In-Reply-To: <4AC3AD67.2020401@impulze.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Faulty BIOS or GRUB issue (USB Stick won't boot) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:22:17 -0000 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". >