Re: [soekris] install grub on compact flash

[adrian15]

> 4. I installed the stage1 on the mbr of the compact flash
>
> dd if=/home/debian_testing/boot/grub/stage1 of=/dev/hde bs=512 count=1

As long as I know you're overwriting your partition table contents of
your flash disk with some trash from stage1 from grub so you're loosing
all the data inside your flash disk.

After re-making a partition table inside your flash disk...

You can download ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.97-i386-pc.tar.gz
and follow these instructions::

Quick instructions
Mount your usb hd untar file in your usb hd  (the tar.gz file)
umount your usb hd open grub as root
device (hd3) /dev/ubb # my usb device in linux is called /dev/ubb
root (hd3,0)
setup (hd3)
quit


You can too download an special version of grub that you have in there
that works with USB with the instructions above.

http://adrian15.raulete.net/grub/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=5

but if you want to stick with original grub... just download the one
I've told it.

adrian15

P.S.: There's also another option that is copying manually stage15*
files and stage1 and stage2 files to /boot/grub/ on your usb pendrive
and then doing the instructions.