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installing grub on non-bios visible disks.
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Barry Davis |
Subject: |
installing grub on non-bios visible disks. |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Jan 2002 12:14:00 +0000 |
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I'm using grub-0.90.
I have a flash disk attached via USB which I need to install to - it
appears as a 128 meg harddrive on /sda in Linux (kernel 2.4.17). The
Flash disk will later be removed and placed in another box and will
appear to the system as the primary harddisk. I need to be able to
install via scripting alone - nothing that must be interactive. This
will happen very frequently.
The flash disk has its own bootloader which determines which partition
to boot: 1 or 2.
I need grub to be chainloaded from this first bootloader.
I can't see how to install grub onto the flash disk as the BIOS on the
machine installing grub does not see the flash disk as a drive.
I was previously using LILO but the size of my initrd is now quite large
(40MB) and LILO seems to mess up with large initrds, whereas grub from a
floppy boots it successfully.
Thanks for any advice you can give,
Barry.
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