#HOW TO PUT GRUB ON USB HOW TO#
#HOW TO PUT GRUB ON USB INSTALL#
#HOW TO PUT GRUB ON USB ISO#
#HOW TO PUT GRUB ON USB DOWNLOAD#

# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not use 'savedefault' or your # is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'. # You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. # the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.

# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. enter the following command:Ĭode: # menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8) im going to use USB for the name of the flash drive but please enter the name of your drive in place of that. you can rename it if need be for easier access. This is where we will put the GRUB files at. then we are going to make some directories. First we are going to take a flash drive we don't use and delete all the data on it.Ģ. The reason we do this is so that we can have our Grub system build itself instead of having to build it ourselves.Īfter you do that go to Terminal and do the following steps (some of the letters look alike so please copy and paste if need be.):ġ.

#HOW TO PUT GRUB ON USB INSTALL#

first install Ubuntu and boot into it after installation. So looking around i found some info and took my own info that i already had and combined all the information to put together what i wanted an independent GRUB system that doesn't need Ubuntu. So i needed to separate GRUB from Ubuntu. Now i have Ubuntu installed on my Toshiba laptop and i didnt want to run Ubuntu on my Sony VAIO (the one with Vista) because i run Ubuntu from my Sony via Virtual Server Network (VSN) which is connected to my Toshiba which is what the VSN runs from. So i wanted GRUB because i can boot into that partition from there. Initrd (loop)/arch/boot/intel_ucode.img (loop)/arch/boot/amd_ucode.img (loop)/arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.The reason i wanted GRUB on a flash drive is because i have Windows Vista and there is a recovery partition on my hard drive also that i have needed to use a couple of times (because Vista sucks and corrupts itself every-once-in-a-while) Linux (loop)/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz img_dev=/dev/disk/by-uuid/$UUID_ISO img_loop=$ISOFILE If loadfont $ESP/boot/grub/fonts/unicode.pf2

#HOW TO PUT GRUB ON USB ISO#

Set ISO_PART=($ISO_PART) # add parenthesesĮcho 'The partition on the flash drive with the iso is $ISO_PART'Įcho 'the prefix is $prefix' # GRUB folder with modules Search -no-floppy -set=ISO_PART -fs-uuid $UUID_ISO # the address of the ISO partition Search -no-floppy -set=ESP -fs-uuid $UUID_ESP # the address of the ESP

#HOW TO PUT GRUB ON USB HOW TO#

I spent hours in the internet trying to find how to generate a working grub.cfg for a removable disk.įinally based on the script from here, i made my working script (the below is contents of grub.cfg): # inputs # I have not tried any other iso's just these three. If I figure out what I need to get the other two to finish loading, I will add that later. I was able to get all three to start the boot process but, only Ubuntu to actually load. I found that in the different iso's, vmlinuz and initrd were located in a different directory. Linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz boot=live iso-scan/filename=/clonezilla.iso splash. Linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/ splash. Linux (loop)/isolinux/vmlinuz0 boot=isolinux iso-scan/filename=/Fedora13.iso splash. The link was wget Īfter that I edited grub.cfg to reflect the iso's on my USB drive.

#HOW TO PUT GRUB ON USB DOWNLOAD#

The site gave a link to download a copy of grub.cfg to the /boot/grub directory on my USB drive. I had to use -force additionally, the example on the site did not. In a terminal I ran df it returned the location of the device as /dev/sdg1 /media/LINUXUSBĪnd then to install grub 2 grub-install -no-floppy -force -root-directory=/media/LINUXUSB /dev/sdg1 I started with finding the location of my USB drive The Pendrivelinux site had a tutorial I did this from my Mint 9 install instead of a live cd as the site suggests. You got me curious how this would be done.

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