<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Brent Norris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brent@brentnorris.net">brent@brentnorris.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Skip the hard drive and just get a cheap USB thumb drive. I bought them from newegg in a two pack and got rid of one of the noisiest things in my frontends.<br><font color="#888888">
</font></blockquote><div><br>This seems like a great idea so I decided to try it, but I'm having some grub problems that I hope someone could help me with.<br><br>I wanted to try to clone my MythDora frontend onto a thumb drive, rather than repeating the mythdora installation and customization. I partitioned the thumb drive (/dev/sdb) to fairly closely match the hard drive (/dev/sda). I used "tar" to copy files across to keep permissions and everything intact. Then I unplugged the hard drive and tried to boot off the thumb drive. Of course that failed because I didn't have a boot loader installed. So I tried something with grub-install, and grub directly, and in both cases booting off the thumb drive put me into an interactive grub prompt instead of automatically booting into linux.<br>
<br>Can someone offer me the right grub magic to make this automatically boot? I'm looking for the right command for when I boot off sda and have the thumb drive available as sdb, so that I can reboot without the hard drive (and the thumb drive will now be sda). The boot partition is sda1/sdb1.<br>
<br>Jim<br></div></div>