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List:       grub-bug
Subject:    Booting external hard drive on multiple systems (GRUB Legacy)
From:       "Vogel, Jens" <jens.vogel () siemens ! com>
Date:       2010-02-26 10:08:46
Message-ID: F99B9118E58C9241B010DF835F61930901FB4FE4C7 () DEFTHW99ED4MSX ! ww902 ! siemens ! net
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I like to create a linux installation on an external hard drive, which is bootable on \
any system, the drive is pluged in. I have no idea, how to create the mbr on this \
drive with grub legacy. In my opinion, the bootable partition (with /boot/grub/...) \
must be referenced relativ to the drive with the booting mbr or by uuid or something \
similar.

If i try to create the mbr by e.g.
# mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt
# grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdd
it seems that there will be set an absolute reference to e.g. (hd4,0) in the mbr, \
which must fail on an other system with a different drive configuration...


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