No Boot Device Found

[eppoh]

Just did and install to a USB drive from the live CD. I did not install any Grub, it installed itself over my PC grub last time I tried this.

Now , with the system apparently sucessfully installed to the USB drive, it will not boot.

I get an error message that says "No boot device found" press a key ..

I shouldn't need Grub should I ? Wouldn't the installer make the drive bootable?

[Chi]

Hi

A boot loader is needed on the Master Boot Record.

At the end of install select the "Advanced" button (probably the same place you selected to not install Grub) and this should give choice of installing grub on the USB key by choosing the correct device.

You could try Super Grub rather than reinstalling, as it can apparently boot a kernel directly, then fix Grub from there.

Also some USB flash drives are notorious for having problems with corrupted master boot records, one I definitely know of is the Kingston Data Traveler. To fix can use apt package called mbr. fdisk -l (to locate drive) then install-mbr /dev/sdx (with sdx being flash device)

[eppoh]

This is not a flash drive- it is a USB hard drive.

[Chi]

Will still require a bootloader to boot kernel. If booting from the disk then on the mbr.