On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 23:12:31 -0400, Tyler Vann-Campbell
<tyler.v@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
I solved my own problem in this case. I made a GRUB cdrom, and after
waving several dead chickens over the BIOS, it finally booted and I
was able to get GRUB installed using GRUB.
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