[SLUG] GRUG Hard Disk Error when moving disk across machines

From: Tyler Vann-Campbell (tyler.v@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 09 2004 - 23:12:31 EDT


I'm having some difficulty with moving a flash disk from one machine
to a different machine. The disk boots fine on one machine (the
machine I used to build the environment on the disk) but when I move
it to the machine I'd like it to run using, I get a GRUB Hard Disk
Error. I assume that this has something to do with the different BIOS
translated geometry on the two systems. I considered using LILO, but
LILO isn't too sure about writing to flash ide drives, which this is.

Syslinux only works with FAT filesystems, and I'm using ext2 on the
flash drive so using Syslinux is out. I'm not sure about the others
out there, RedBoot, etc. Any input on workarounds? I'm looking through
the GRUB manual, but it's not offering much.
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