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            Titel: Grub on USB HDD Bootdisk 
             Verfasst am: 09.09.2006, 12:38 Uhr
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            Anmeldung: 05. Sep 2006 
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          I followed the instructions from http://biohackery.com/node/4/print to boot enable an external USB HDD using the following commands:
 
 
cp -av /cdrom/boot /media/sdb1/
 
 
grub-install --root-directory=/media/sdb1 /dev/sdb
 
 
Commands appear to work fine but when I try and boot from the USB it sits on a black screen with the word 'GRUB' in the LH corner and flashing cursor - only option is to power off. Having tried the above commands once again I get:
 
 
root@1[knoppix]# grub-install --root-directory=/media/sdb1/ /dev/sdb
 
Due to a bug in xfs_freeze, the following command might produce a segmentation
 
fault when /media/sdb1//boot/grub is not in an XFS filesystem. This error is harmless and
 
can be ignored.
 
xfs_freeze: specified file ["/media/sdb1//boot/grub"] is not on an XFS filesystem
 
Installation finished. No error reported.
 
This is the contents of the device map /media/sdb1//boot/grub/device.map.
 
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
 
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.
 
 
 
The resultant boot is the same black screen. Can someone help please as to why I cannot setup the bootable drive. Thanks. | 
         
        
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