Re: Faulty BIOS or GRUB issue (USB Stick won't boot)

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

Daniel Mierswa wrote:
> On 30.09.2009 08:20, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>> [...] A workaround could be following:
>> losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/sdb1
> Why do I need to create a loop device for the first partition?
>
To simulate brain damage of your BIOS
>> grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/usb /dev/loop0
> This will give a GRUB error, saying that there's no matching device
> for /dev/loop0 in my device.map. After removing the device.map and by
> letting GRUB create it automatically, I get "Invalid device
> `/dev/loop0'."
>
echo '(hd0)  /dev/loop0' > /boot/grub/device.map
>> Don't forget to apply fezie's bugfix for root-directory
> Yeah this is already applied since I tried to install it into the
> primary partition via "--root-directory=/mnt/mount /dev/sdb1".
>