Re: Faulty BIOS or GRUB issue (USB Stick won't boot)

[Daniel Mierswa]

On 30.09.2009 08:20, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> [...] A workaround could be following:
> losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/sdb1
Why do I need to create a loop device for the first partition?

> grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/usb /dev/loop0
This will give a GRUB error, saying that there's no matching device for 
/dev/loop0 in my device.map. After removing the device.map and by 
letting GRUB create it automatically, I get "Invalid device `/dev/loop0'."

> Don't forget to apply fezie's bugfix for root-directory
Yeah this is already applied since I tried to install it into the 
primary partition via "--root-directory=/mnt/mount /dev/sdb1".

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