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Special Forums Hardware Boot Loaders How to install grub on USB flash drive? Post 302463140 by vistastar on Friday 15th of October 2010 11:06:05 PM
Old 10-16-2010
I tried this, it says "Error 1: Cannot mount selected partition"

I think may be there are some hiden partition on my flash drive. In addition, the file system on my flash drive is FAT32. And I also tried formatting it as FAT, but it make no difference.

Code:
grub> root (hd1,0)
root (hd1,0)

Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
grub> root (hd1,1)
root (hd1,1)

Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
grub> root (hd1,2)
root (hd1,2)

Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
grub> root (hd1,3)
root (hd1,3)

Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS

Code:
grub> geometry (hd1)
geometry (hd1)
drive 0x81: C/H/S = 1019/60/62, The number of sectors = 3792896, /dev/sdb
   Partition num: 0, 
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
   Partition num: 1, 
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
   Partition num: 2, 
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
   Partition num: 3, 
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS

Code:
[root@fedora/home/alien]:)fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 1941 MB, 1941962752 bytes
60 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3720 * 512 = 1904640 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6f20736b

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   ?      209177      516034   570754815+  72  Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(209176, 19, 11)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(516033, 44, 51)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2   ?       45347      565785   968014120   65  Novell Netware 386
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(45346, 38, 47)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(565784, 20, 42)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb3   ?      502657     1023094   968014096   79  Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(502656, 18, 30)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(1023093, 59, 39)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb4   ?      775721      775736       27749+   d  Unknown
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(775720, 44, 25)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(775735, 39, 33)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order

I don't think it is a matter of real BIOS or not,because I had successfully installed grub on a kingston flash drive before. But it lost.
I just used the command: grub-install.
Last edited by vistastar; 10-16-2010 at 12:15 AM..
 

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