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Linux on Hard Drive, Boot Partition / Bootloader on USB Flash Drive

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https://bbs.archlinux.org – This is how I have my laptop setup.I simply created a partition on my SSD.Used cryptsetup to encrypt it with LUKS/dm-crypt.Then setup LVM on it.Used fdisk to create a parition on my USB stick & made it bootable & create an ext4 filesystemWhile booted into the Live Arch USB enviorment....mounted the LVM lvol-root to /mntmounted the LVM lvol-home to /mnt/homemounted the /dev/sdc1 to /mnt/boot>Note: the Arch USB is /dev/sdb, so the /boot is on device /dev/sdc>This causes a problem you need to fixThe only thing I changed to /etc/default/grub was this.../etc/default/grubGRUB_CMDLINE_L (HowTos)

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How can I use a USB flash drive to boot Linux from a partition on (another) hard drive?

I'm trying to install Linux on an encrypted partition on the hard drive (using LVM on LUKS).

Since /boot must be on a separate, unencrypted partition, I would like to store it on a USB flash drive.

My plan was to install GRUB (2) to the flash drive (/dev/sdb) and boot Linux from it's MBR, or if the drive was

Partition scheme:/dev/sda/    - /dev/sda1: /boot/efi, 512M    - /dev/sda2: /boot, 100M    - /dev/sda3: lvm partition (/, var, home)+ lvm on luks.install from usb: dd if=archlinux-2012-08-04.iso of=/dev/sdXInstallation steps:- boot from usb with noapic parameter- partition- encrypt /dev/sda3- partitioning on /dev/sda3 (/,var,home)- mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sda1; mkfs.ext2 /

Dear all,

I have a large external drive, which I connect to my laptop via a PCMCIA card - the machine is old and does not have USB 2.0 built in, so I use the PCMCIA card for that.

I am thinking of the following setup, and hope you can give me some tips on whether or not that would be a sound solution:

I had the idea to dual boot Win 7 and Ubuntu and what I did was the following:

Made a clean install of win 7 using all of my hard drive, next I used the ubuntu live cd and gparted to partition my drive to be the following:

/dev/sda1 ext4 20GB (Linux root) /dev/sda2 ntfs 100GB(Win7) /dev/sda3 ext4 350GB(Home) /dev/sda4 extended 4GB(swap)

The thing is, when installing ubuntu I deleted the partiti

I have a 1TB SATA hard disk from my old desktop, and the entire thing is an ext4 /home partition (/, /boot, and swap were all on another hdd). It is now in a USB2 enclosure and I want to use it to back up my current laptop /home.

To do this I need to shrink the /home partition on the 1TB backup drive.

Hi, I am new to linux and this is my first linux installation.

Hi guys,I'm trying to install Arch on an external hard drive, and making it bootable. However, I can't install grub on it. The grub installation failed during setup, and when I run grub-install, I get:/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible!. /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible.

Hi guys,I'm trying to install Arch on an external hard drive, and making it bootable. However, I can't install grub on it. The grub installation failed during setup, and when I run grub-install, I get:/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible!. /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible.

Hi guys,I'm trying to install Arch on an external hard drive, and making it bootable. However, I can't install grub on it. The grub installation failed during setup, and when I run grub-install, I get:/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible!. /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible.