[Clfs-support] Howto install GRUB USB Disk with differing devicename on target

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Hello Andreas,

Andreas Hofer schreef:
> During Installation onto the USB disk, my Ubuntu drive (SATA) is
> /dev/sda and the CLFS drive is /dev/sdb (root partition being /dev/sdb1
> mounted at /mnt/clfs). After installation the USB disk containing CLFS
> will be operated as the one and only disk of my target system and as
> such its device name will be /dev/sda.
>
> Can someone explain to me how to proceed installing GRUB. Specifically:
> Which parameters to take for the "root (drive,partition)" and "setup
> (drive)" commands and which path to take in menu.lst
To set up:

root (hd1,0)
setup (hd1)

In grub/menu.lst you should add:

kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/sda1

It would be best to do all serial/parallel ata drivers as modules, and
build usb mass storage directly into kernel, this will make sure your
usb disk is indeed /dev/sda1 .

-Maarten