[NTLUG:Discuss] GRUB and USB drives.

[Daniel Hauck]

Simple: pull the hard drive.

Steve Baker wrote:
> I have an HP laptop with WinXP - and I'm not supposed to 'mess it up' by 
> installing Linux onto it - but I have a 300Gb USB drive, so I'd like to
> boot Linux from that instead.
> 
> The BIOS lets me hold down the ESC key during startup - and to select
> "boot from USB"...so this sounds do-able.
> 
> I installed SuSE 10.2 on the USB drive - but GRUB tried to write to the
> laptop's internal drive instead...and that's a "No No".
> 
> I can't figure out what to tell GRUB to make it install a boot loader
> onto the USB drive that'll boot from the USB drive.  I can boot from a 
> SuSE Live-CD and run grub - but I can't figure out what to tell it.
> 
> The USB drive mounts as /dev/sda1  (system partition) and /dev/sda3
> (user partition).  Both are formatted 'Linux Native'.  The "must not 
> touch" hard drive is /dev/hda
> 
> Help!  Thanks!
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