install F11 ON a USB-HDD

Don Quixote de la Mancha quixote at dulcineatech.com
Mon Jul 20 14:29:00 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Daniel Kirsten<Daniel.Kirsten at gmx.net> wrote:
> When I try to boot from this USB-HDD, grub does not even start.
> I just see a blinking cursor, and then, the computer boots from the
> built in HardDisk.

Is grub installed in the USB drive's Master Boot Record?

I get something like this now and then on my own machine, because I
have a RAID controller that shows up as /dev/sdb, and an eSATA disk
that shows up as /dev/sda.  What happens to me sometimes is that my
Grub install on /dev/sdb gets clobbered, and then all I get is the
blinking cursor.  Re-installing Grub fixes it.

Don Quixote
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