[mythtv-users] Perfect frontend?

[John Drescher]

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Enigma <enigma at thedonnerparty.com> wrote:
>> Can someone offer me the right grub magic to make this automatically boot?
>> I'm looking for the right command for when I boot off sda and have the
>> thumb
>> drive available as sdb, so that I can reboot without the hard drive (and
>> the
>> thumb drive will now be sda). The boot partition is sda1/sdb1.
>
> You should be able to do the following (as root)
>
> [blah at blah] # grub
>
>    GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
>
>        [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.   For
>          the   first   word,  TAB  lists  possible  command
>          completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
>          completions of a device/filename. ]
>
> // First, tell grub the target root filesystem is on the first partition of
> the second disk
> grub> root (hd1,0)
>
>  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd
>
> // now tell grub to install the bootblock to the second disk
> grub> setup (hd1)
>
>  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 (hd1)"...  15 sectors are embedded.
> succeeded
>  Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd1) (hd1)1+15 p
> (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
> Done.
>
> grub> quit
>
> [blah at blah] #
>
>
>
> If that doesn't work check /boot/grub/device.map (on the target drive) and
> make sure it has an entry for /dev/sdb
>
I recommend starting grub then quitting (quit command above) to
generate the /boot/grub/device.map then proceed with the directions
above if you have more than 1 hard drive in your system.

John