Install grub on usb error
#INSTALL GRUB ON USB ERROR INSTALL#
I'd like to use GRUB as my bootloader.How do I install GRUB to my usb's MBRLots of examples out there seem to expect I'm running Lin. Sorry if the formatting is weird, and if you need verbose grub logs I should be able to provide them. I'm trying to build my recovery usb key drive. I frankly don't want to redo the USB, but would be willing to if nobody knows anything else I can do. This wasn't working last night on a VM, but now it seems to be. The other method is tricking an MBR system into reading GPT in terms of booting ( … g_from_GPT). Next I put in a regular 500GB HDD instead of the 80GB SSD and the install worked just fine. Trying that still did not work unfortunately. I'm frankly not sure where to go from this. After making sure Windows fast boot/startup is disabled (see post above), can you boot to the LiveUSB and post the output from: Code: Select sudo fdisk -l. It was trying to install to /dev/sda which was the USB stick instead of /dev/sdc which is my SSD. I frankly wouldn't like to use mbr, because some UEFI systems seem to require gpt for security reasons (god I hate MS).
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I also tried zeroing out /dev/sdb1 to remove the fat partition I put on there (I was getting errors before I formatted it as well) thinking it might do anything, but that outputs an error saying "grub-install: error: unable to identify a filesystem in hostdisk//dev/sdb safety check can't be performed." Using the -force flag "works," but as said previously it breaks for no reason. Grub-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
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However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. Grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. Grub-install: warning: Filesystem 'fat' doesn't support embedding.