Timeline for Incorrect step with grub while installing onto a USB stick?
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| Jun 1, 2016 at 21:00 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 19:43 | history | edited | strugee | edited tags | |
| Aug 11, 2013 at 23:28 | answer | added | user4069 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 11, 2013 at 4:07 | comment | added | user4069 | Well the installer on the usb is working fine. The USB I install the distro on is not. I'm completely sure it's because grub doesn't know what to do with it | |
| Aug 11, 2013 at 2:11 | comment | added | user44370 | oh, you're doing that on linux/osx. From the very limited xp I have, I don't trust dd on osx, could never make anything bootable out of it. I've created a live-usb from linux only once I think with uunetbootin, otherwise i've always used the pendrive tool in windows and never tried from scratch in linux - surely you must be using an iso that is already tailored for usb. I think the issue is making it bootable not grub, but again, newbie here. You may find this useful. Good luck! | |
| Aug 10, 2013 at 22:58 | comment | added | user4069 | @illuminÉ: I believe I used dd if=iso of=/dev/sdb/ then booted up said usb stick. After it copied or 'installed' the files to the USB it had some kind of GRUB setup phase which I thought was weird. I can't boot up the USB | |
| Aug 10, 2013 at 21:48 | comment | added | user44370 | Usually when you turn a linux livecd iso to a live usb stick with something like pendrive linux you just set the bios boot order and that's it. Not one thing touches the hdd so there's certainly no need to install grub anywhere. If you decide to start the installer (if available) at that point, and you install to the disk, grub will become the boot loader and should be able to show you a boot menu with all your OSes. So how did you make that USB stick and where does it ask questions about specifying a drive for mbr install? | |
| Aug 10, 2013 at 19:23 | history | asked | user4069 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |