Fw: Grub Solution for Sysroot build

Harvey Muller wrote:

>2.  Prepare grub boot medium.  The grub manual gives directions for preparing 
>a grub boot disk from floppy, and cdrom.  I >elected to use a spare flashdrive 
>that wasn't busy, as I am able to boot from USB.  This is how I did it.
>
>  a.  Identify device, block count, and size of USB flashdrive.  I used a 128M 
> sized model because I didn't have anything >smaller.  Insert the flashdrive 
> into a running linux system (used LiveCD) with a terminal open.  Note the 
> block count and >size.  Once the device settled I learned that my particular 
> device reported as sda, had 254208 blocks at 512 bytes each.
>
>  b.  Use dd to zero out the flashdrive.  Using the above information these 
> are the commands I used:
>
>    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

I didn't catch this until after I hit 'send'.  The dd command in full, was this:

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=254208

The first command would still work, but the corrected command above is cleaner.



 
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