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percy_vere_uk
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:51 am    Post subject: [solved] make flash drive boot supergrub2 Reply with quote

Hi

I am trying to get 'supergrub2' to boot from a usb flash drive. The .iso file boots fine from a cd but I am not sure how I should format the flash drive to enable this.

Any help would be appreciated.

percy


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 6:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"official" method http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/SGD_Howto_make#How_to_make_a_Super_Grub2_Disk_USB have no idea if it works or not
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DONAHUE

Prior to reading your response I had followed 'Howto make - Super Grub Disk Wiki.htm' [ Gnu/Linux (and being usable for storage later]

I formatted the pen drive as ext4 and not fat32 as stated. I then found that it booted fine on another linux laptop and showed supergrub2 menu ok.

I then tried again on the original laptop no boot. So I looked at the bios boot priorities and found that the sequence had returned usb to after hdd.

So there was the problem, I do not know why this was the case because I had already changed this for usb before hdd, I had saved this and checked that this was the case but somehow it had reverted.

Anyhow it is booting fine now, thanks for your input on this.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have an ami bios that likes to do the same thing.
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