Re: Grub2 on USB-Stick fails install

[Oliver Friedrich]

On 14.12.2011 21:04, Neal Murphy wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 December 2011 14:28:53 Oliver Friedrich wrote:
> > On 13.12.2011 21:12, Jordan Uggla wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Oliver Friedrich<address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > > > address@hidden:~$ sudo LANG=C parted -l
> > > > Model: Generic STORAGE DEVICE (scsi)
> > > > Disk /dev/sdb: 32.1GB
> > > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> > > > Partition Table: msdos
> > > >
> > > > Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
> > > >
> > > >    1      1049kB  32.1GB  32.1GB  primary  fat32
> > >
> > >    From that, it doesn't look like you have multiple partition tables,
> > >
> > > but you may have stale fat signatures (from previously putting a fat32
> > > filesystem on the whole device, without any partition table) which
> > > grub-install is seeing. When grub-install sees what looks like both a
> > > partition table and a filesystem it can't be sure that it's safe to
> > > embed grub. There is probably a subtler and less destructive way to
> > > remove just the fat signatures, but if you don't mind losing the data
> > > currently on the drive then running "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
> > > count=1" will zero the first MiB of the drive, *destroying the current
> > > partition table and making all files on the drive currently
> > > inaccessible*. After zeroing the first MiB of the drive you should be
> > > able to partition it again and install grub without any problem.
> > Did follow your proposal with:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
> > count=1
> >
> >
> > and then made the filesystem directly on the device with:
> >
> > /mkfs.msdos -I -F 32 -n BeowulfOF /dev/sdb/
> >
> >
> > Anyway, the error message is still the same if I try to install grub with:
> >
> > /grub-install --force --no-floppy --boot-directory=/media/BeowulfOF/boot
> > /dev/sdc/
> You worked with /dev/sdb, then tried to install grub to /dev/sdc? That
> oughtn't work.

C&P mistake, i work on /dev/sdb currently