Gloria has no love for me!
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:31 pm
I've tried, but Gloria just won't install on a USB flash drive for me.
Although I have also tried to make a Live USB stick with Gloria, too, that didn't work either. My main concern is to treat the flash drive as if it is a hard disk drive, though, and just do a normal install. I have done this before with other distributions, but I have had no success lately, with Linux Mint 7, Ubuntu 9 or Fedora 11.
Today I bought two more 8Gb flash drives and both attempts to install on them failed with Error 17s, which, apparently, means (paraphrasing) GRUB can't figure out how to start things rolling.
One thing that worries me is that when GRUB gets installed, the host computer's hard drive is activated. This, I am pretty sure, is unusual. I don't remember the host's drive getting accessed while installing Linux to a USB flash drive before, so is there any connection with this and my problem?
Is there any way to find out if GRUB has been installed to a hard drive that should not have it?
I know there are ways of removing GRUB, but I just want to know if it is there now.
Can anyone clue me in on what is going so very wrong each and every time and how to fix this annoying problem?
Although I have also tried to make a Live USB stick with Gloria, too, that didn't work either. My main concern is to treat the flash drive as if it is a hard disk drive, though, and just do a normal install. I have done this before with other distributions, but I have had no success lately, with Linux Mint 7, Ubuntu 9 or Fedora 11.
Today I bought two more 8Gb flash drives and both attempts to install on them failed with Error 17s, which, apparently, means (paraphrasing) GRUB can't figure out how to start things rolling.
One thing that worries me is that when GRUB gets installed, the host computer's hard drive is activated. This, I am pretty sure, is unusual. I don't remember the host's drive getting accessed while installing Linux to a USB flash drive before, so is there any connection with this and my problem?
Is there any way to find out if GRUB has been installed to a hard drive that should not have it?
I know there are ways of removing GRUB, but I just want to know if it is there now.
Can anyone clue me in on what is going so very wrong each and every time and how to fix this annoying problem?