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| From | Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Recovering from failure to install Grub |
| Date | 2017-01-18 12:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <t0W8b-2X3-63@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <t0Iox-38E-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <t0LPs-54F-29@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On 1/17/2017 5:58 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 17 Jan 2017 at 14:19:11 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> I just installed Jessie to a USB flash drive. >> Unfortunately I mistyped the name of the preseed.cfg file and ran the one >> which did not install grub to the target drive. >> On a working Jessie machine I inserted the flash drive and then ran >> update-grub. >> I was then able to boot the copy of Debian residing on the flash drive. >> It appears to run properly and is now installing some packages that >> intentionally had not been installed by preseeding. >> >> Looking for instructions for installing Grub to an existing drive I found >> https://wiki.debian.org/Installation+Archive+USBStick?highlight=%28grub-install%29|%28jessie%29 >> . >> >> It was written to address a different situation. >> It seems to say that all I have to do is run >> >> /usr/sbin/grub-install --boot-directory=<mount_point>/boot /dev/sdb >> >> Is that correct for my situation? > > Yes. > So incomplete as to be *WRONG* ! There is enough of grub placed on the flash drive to get a grub> command line prompt. <TAB> does list available commands but scrolls off screen too fast to be useful. May I humbly beg a more useful answer?
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Recovering from failure to install Grub Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-17 21:20 +0100
Re: Recovering from failure to install Grub Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-01-17 21:40 +0100
Re: Recovering from failure to install Grub Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-17 22:00 +0100
Re: Recovering from failure to install Grub Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-18 11:50 +0100
Re: Recovering from failure to install Grub Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-01-18 01:00 +0100
Re: Recovering from failure to install Grub Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-18 12:00 +0100
Re: Recovering from failure to install Grub Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-01-18 12:50 +0100
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