[nylug-talk] Knoppix HD install boot block

[Seth Rothenberg]

> I thought that grub-install usually did this?
>
> -Peter
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:07:20PM -0500, Seth Rothenberg wrote:
>> I used the knoppix-installer...
>> and it doesn't seem to have installed a working boot block.

Peter,
Thanks...I found out the real problem.

This box
(I didn't mention before, this is a Shuttle XPC...)
has a setting Hard Disk Priority, to choose whether USB disks
should be probed for boot before Hard Disks (as a detail of
the boot order, when Hard Disk is selected)

For whatever reason, this logic didn't do what
I hoped it would...so it was finding no bootable
medium on the (missing) USB stick, and stopping.

Disabling USB booting caused it to boot.

However, in the interim, I had created another
partition and installed vanilla Debian 3.1, so
that is what booted, but Peter's note told
me how to find the grub configs...and now
I have a box that has debian minimal on sda3 and
KNOPPIX on sda1.


Thanks