How to instaqll grub on pen drive

[codpawn]

I've tried everithing same problem

board freezes at Verifing DMI pool data

and BTW Iam using XFX630i

[caljohnsmith]

Are you at least giving your BIOS a minute or two to update its DMI data when it gives you that message "verifying DMI pool data"? Do you have a BIOS setting for enabling/disabling internal and external CPU cache? Do you have any other BIOS settings related to LBA, CHS, RAID, AHCI vs. IDE, ACPI, etc? Those are all the BIOS settings you could change to see if it helps.

[meierfra.]

grub> device (hd1) /dev/sda

grub> root (hd1,6)

grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 16 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd1,6)/boot/grub/stage
2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
Done.

Did you also do "device (hd0) /dev/sdb" ?

[codpawn]

Are you at least giving your BIOS a minute or two to update its DMI data when it gives you that message "verifying DMI pool data"? Do you have a BIOS setting for enabling/disabling internal and external CPU cache? Do you have any other BIOS settings related to LBA, CHS, RAID, AHCI vs. IDE, ACPI, etc? Those are all the BIOS settings you could change to see if it helps.

Ive tried changing each and every setting in my BIOS.
And I was waiting near about 5to6 minutes at the "verifying dmi pool data" step.

[codpawn]

Did you also do "device (hd0) /dev/sdb" ?

No I didn't done that.

[caljohnsmith]

How about going through the steps in post #4 again, and this time be careful to include all the commands. After that, try and boot your USB stick again and let me know what happens.

[codpawn]

Ive Repeted the 4th step again and the problem was same.

And afterwords something gone wrong, Now Iam getting the GRUB error 17 while booting

right now iam on live 8.10 and tried fixing that by following tutorial

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=767189

but iam getting
Error 15:File not found

so again

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x005495b2

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        3916    31455238+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            4166       60801   454928670    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3            3917        4165     2000092+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5           10444       23497   104856223+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6            4166        5410    10000399+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7           23498       60801   299644348+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 2051 MB, 2051013632 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 249 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7d23c23a

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1         249     2000061    b  W95 FAT32

Iam messed up.
And sorry for asking it again

[meierfra.]

GRUB error 17 while booting

Do you get Grub error 17 after selected Ubuntu at the Grub menu? Or do you get the error before the Grub menu appears?

[codpawn]

Do you get Grub error 17 after selected Ubuntu at the Grub menu? Or do you get the error before the Grub menu appears?

It was before Grub menu appearing
But now Ive Fixed my Xp's Mbr and booted into XP

Can I do a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.10 or repair the Grub??

[codpawn]

Finally I fixed the both boot loaders and back in Ubuntu