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Re: help with grub command sought

From "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.setup, comp.os.linux.portable
Subject Re: help with grub command sought
Date 2014-06-22 10:20 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 20:11:25 +0000, Charles T. Smith wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 11:03:59 +0000, Charles T. Smith wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking for the proper grub command to write a boot sector to a
>> removable USB drive.
>> 
>> After installation, the disk won't normally boot.
>> 
>> I am creating a portable SuSE 13.1 system on a removable usb drive.  I
>> choose minimal X desktop to avoid Gnome and Kde.  I also chose to
>> install the boot sector in the partition where I was installing linux.
>> 
>> I can boot the system via the installation system.  I can boot it and
>> run grub and could write a boot sector from there, but I'm worried that
>> I might blow away my main system if I enter the wrong command.
>> 
>> Any help is appreciated.
>> cts
> 
> 
> Okay, I may have found it: http://lwn.net/Articles/253587/
> 
> But I haven't had a chance to test it yet.


Well, I wasn't able to make progress with that.  But I noticed something 
interesting...

My drive is mounted from /dev/disk/by-id.  Every time this event happens, 
the device, /dev/sd?3, changes - first, it's at /dev/sdb3, then after 
remount it's at /dev/sdc3, and then, the next time it happens, it goes 
back to /dev/sdb3 again.

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help with grub command sought "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2014-06-21 11:03 +0000
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    Re: help with grub command sought "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2014-06-22 10:20 +0000
      Re: help with grub command sought Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-06-22 13:14 +0200
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