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On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:33:36 -0700, walt wrote: |
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> My USB stick, e.g. shows up in grub as (hd2). Now, I can't possibly |
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> think straight enough to know in advance that the USB stick is (hd2), |
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> so what I do every time is to use this trick from the grub prompt: |
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> grub> root (hd<now I hit TAB for a list of all drives that grub finds> |
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> grub> root (hd<TAB> |
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> Possible disks are: hd0 hd1 hd2 <that narrows it down to three> |
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> Now for each of the three disks I continue this way: |
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> grub> root (hd0,<TAB to get a list of all partitions on (hd0)> |
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> On the third disk I finally recognize my USB stick because it has only |
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> one partition, but just to be sure: |
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> grub> root (hd2,0)/<TAB to get a list of all directories on the |
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> grub> partition> |
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> If by that time I'm still not sure which is the right disk then I'd |
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> better go take a nap before proceeding ;o) |
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Or you could use find from the grub prompt. Just put a file identifying |
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the USB stick in its root directory and find that. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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