Usb install grub2

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How do you install Grub2 on a USB stick? Asked 10 years ago. Active 9 years, 9 months ago. Viewed 28k times. Improve this question.

David Cary David Cary 2 2 gold badges 4 4 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. The following live systems are supported: grml Parted Magic Slax Tinycore Ubuntu live systems with a loopback.

Improve this answer. Be aware you will be overwriting any existing bootloader and grub. Before proceeding, boot into your Linux desktop Ubuntu was used here. Once running from your desktop, insert your Flash Drive.

First we need to install required packages, grab the latest Grub2 source code from the repository, and then bootstrap it. To accomplish this, we will create separate containers for each build. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I have seen other solutions but they only work with ISO images. They have plenty of articles on this regard. Grub only installs work great on a known system but may need to be edited from grub menu when booting up on another system.

The chainload root entry may need to be adjusted. If booting to another machine, hit "e" to edit the chainload entry and adjust to the correct root. I use this grub method because it works for harddrive and USB. I usually use the stick only on my systems and use the boot to ISOs with shared data partition liberally. USB sticks I use for travel or rescue systems use syslinux, sometimes with grub4dos.

The only system I found for a multi-boot boot-stick, without using Windows is Multisystem. The UI design is a bit strange and the documentation is only in French but it does the job. It can do burg, syslinux, grub4dos, plop, Virtualbox, qemu etc. From what I read Grub 1 is to be preferred for a multiboot environment. Ubuntu Community Ask! Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.

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