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happyface_0
April 24th, 2009, 07:46 PM
I want to install 9.04 x86 on a PC with a non-bootable SATA drive. Before I had the /boot partition on a small PATA drive, but that failed.
Is it possible to install the /boot partition on a floppy disk? Or USB device? Or is there an easier way to boot up a non-bootable HDD.

Thanks! :-s
ChronoSphere
April 24th, 2009, 07:57 PM
What do you mean by "non-bootable SATA drive"? Is it not detected? You can try to install to the SATA, and install GRUB to a bootable drive, which will then boot any other drive.
happyface_0
April 24th, 2009, 09:08 PM
What do you mean by "non-bootable SATA drive"? Is it not detected? You can try to install to the SATA, and install GRUB to a bootable drive, which will then boot any other drive.

It's a SATA PCI card that the BIOS doesn't see as a bootable device.
How can I install GRUB to a floppy disk?
ChronoSphere
April 25th, 2009, 02:31 AM
Start grub, then:

grub> root (fd0)
grub> setup (fd0)
grub> quit