[Voyage-linux] Needing Input

[Richard E Neese]

On 10/15/2012 1:56 PM, Ray Mickle wrote:
> Punky,
> No, I used the provided tar.gz files and ran the voyage.update there. Then I created a tar of the updated drive (plus the programs we use) and untar it to the next system device. I started using the USB drives in the newer Soekris devices with the Trandsend ssd drives they sell; it was the only way I could get voyage to load as I did not have an adapter for the card to run the scripts directly.
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> Ray Mickle
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kim-man 'Punky' TSE [mailto:punkytse at punknix.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 11:55 AM
> To: Richard E Neese
> Cc: Ray Mickle; 'voyage-linux at list.voyage.hk'
> Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] Needing Input
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> Did you use unetbootin to create Live USB drive from Live CD?
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> http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
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> Then use voyage.update to install it to the harddrive.
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> On 10/16/2012 12:18 AM, Richard E Neese wrote:
>> On 10/15/2012 8:44 AM, Ray Mickle wrote:
>>> Richard,
>>>   From my experience with voyage, you need to run grub to update the
>>> device it is pointing to due to grub using disk ids instead of /dev/sdaX. I have done this on CF disks as well as ssd drives from a usb drive.
>>>
>>> Hope it helps,
>>> Ray
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>> well where do we start to fix this.
>> as this is a issue that should be corrected.
>> as it stands now I have to use the cd and install then mnt and cp the
>> files over to the drive and this is a waste of time.
>> we should be able to install from a usb onto and drive  and have the grub install correctly.
>>
>> Punky if you read this please give pointers on where to look at fixing this issue.
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steps I take to do installs now

I use the 8.5 live iso. I boot and install.  I then mount the usb 
thumbdrive and cp -rp the files over to the hd.

this works but is time consuming.

The issue at hand is fixing the grub install so you can boot from a 
working usb img/drive and install to a drive on a device that has no 
cdrom/dvd drive.

As it has been pointed out it seems grub fails to install from the usb 
device correctly onto the internal harddrive.

Everything else is cp over like a normal install using the voyage.update 
command.

So Punky and others the question is how to fix the grub install via the 
script to work correctly.