topic title: Full install to a USB-HDD; doesn't boot :(
Posts: 75
M_Mynaardt
Joined: 11 Jul 2011
#1
Hi there!

I just tried to make a portable full boot of antiX on an external USB-HDD. It looked like everything went well. I installed it to /dev/sdc (sda is the computer hard drive and sdb was the USB flash drive I was running antiX Live from instead of a CD).

However, when I tried to boot from the new portable install of antiX, it didn't work. I was given the option of the existing system on the computer's hard drive or antiX. But when I selected antiX I got a message to the effect that the boot system couldn't be found.

Did I overlook something obvious? I partitioned the 320 GB USB-HDD to have a 6 GB swap space, and selected /dev/sdc as the GRUB location. I'm guessing I overlooked something else too...

Thanks!
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#2
Run the Live pen drive and post the /boot/grub/menu.lst that should be on the external hardrive.

Or. Try editing when you get to the grub screen where antix won't boot and edit the (hd2,0), in case that is what is shown and change it to (hd0,0)

My old 8.2 install instructions on how grub had to be edited on external Flash hardrive install is near middle of page.


========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://yatsite.blogspot.com/2009/07/install-antix-82-final-on-asus-eee-900.html"
linktext was:"http://yatsite.blogspot.com/2009/07/ins ... e-900.html"
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Posts: 75
M_Mynaardt
Joined: 11 Jul 2011
#3
rokytnji wrote:Run the Live pen drive and post the /boot/grub/menu.lst that should be on the external hardrive.

Or. Try editing when you get to the grub screen where antix won't boot and edit the (hd2,0), in case that is what is shown and change it to (hd0,0)

My old 8.2 install instructions on how grub had to be edited on external Flash hardrive install is near middle of page.


========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://yatsite.blogspot.com/2009/07/install-antix-82-final-on-asus-eee-900.html"
linktext was:"http://yatsite.blogspot.com/2009/07/ins ... e-900.html"
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Okay, right on, I'll give that a go!

Thanks!
Posts: 200
lagopus
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
#4
You may also replace the boot=(hdx,0) by boot=UUID=xxxxx
where xxx is the UUID of the device

use (as root):

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# blkid
to get the UUID of you disk