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SGD Howto make
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How to make an SGD disk.
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How to make a Super Grub Disk Cdrom.
- Get Super Grub Disk Cdrom from Super Grub Disk downloads.
- After unzipping (or not) you will have a ISO file.
- You need to burn this ISO file directly to the disk. See How to Burn Ubuntu ISOs to get an idea.
How to make a Super Grub Disk Floppy.
- Put a blank or unuseful floppy in your floppy drive.
Windows
- Use rawritewin program.
- With ... button choose the SGD floppy image.
- Click on Write button.
- Wait till proccess is 100% complete.
Linux
dd if=/path/to/floppyimage of=/dev/fd0
How to make a Super Grub Disk USB.
Note: With this method you do NOT delete anyone of your pendrive contents. This method needs a Linux working system... if you do not have one you can use a SGD cdrom or floppy or even use a live cd to follow the instructions from there.
I am going to use pendrive as a synonim for USB Flash Drive, USB Hard Disk, USB Hard Drive and so on.
Gnome
- Unmount and unplug your pendrive device.
- Open a terminal and run:
mount
- Insert your pendrive. A window with pendrive contents should open.
mount
Now in the mount output you should see one more line than in the first run of mount:
/dev/sdb1 on /media/all type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,data=ordered)
Now we have learnt that the USB device is called: /dev/sdb1 (From now on... you should continue the howto with your own USB device which might be /dev/sda1 or something similar).
Get the Super Grub Disk USB tar. Untar it in a temporary folder. Copy and paste the boot folder found in the USB tar so that when opening your pendrive you see: boot (You should not see super_grub_disk_0.9753 or something similar).
- Close the pendrive window
- Find your pendrive icon in your Desktop.
- Right-click on it
- Select Umount. Do not select Safe Extraction!!!
Get root permissions on the terminal
sudo su # in ubuntu su # In other systems
sync
Now we will use the /dev/sdb (/dev/sdb is ther hard disk where /dev/sdb1 partition is located) device in grub to associate a virtual grub device (hd3) to it and work with it.
grub grub>device (hd3) /dev/sdb grub>root (hd3,0) grub>setup (hd3)
You should see some messages with perhaps some normal errors.
grub>quit sync
You can now unplug your pendrive.
KDE
- Unmount and unplug your pendrive device.
- Open a terminal and run:
mount
- Insert your pendrive. When asked what to do with new pendrive. Click on Open.
A window with pendrive contents should open.
mount
Now in the mount output you should see one more line than in the first run of mount:
/dev/sdb1 on /media/all type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,data=ordered)
Now we have learnt that the USB device is called: /dev/sdb1 (From now on... you should continue the howto with your own USB device which might be /dev/sda1 or something similar).
Get the Super Grub Disk USB tar.Untar it in a temporal folder. Copy and paste the boot folder found in the USB tar so that when opening your pendrive you see: boot (You should not see super_grub_disk_0.9753 or something similar).
- Close the pendrive window
- Find your pendrive icon in Konqueror -> Click on Show Panel if neeed -> Left Side Bar -> System -> "Saving" Devices
- Right-click on it
- Select Umount. Do not select Safe Extraction!!!
Get root permissions on the terminal
sudo su # in ubuntu su # In other systems
sync
Now we will use the /dev/sdb1 in grub to associate a virtual grub device (hd3) to it and work with it.
grub grub>device (hd3) /dev/sdb1 grub>root (hd3,0) grub>setup (hd3)
You should see some messages with perhaps some normal errors.
grub>quit sync
You can now unplug your pendrive.
Common errors
Some installations in pendrive are conflictive. Most of them derive from the cylinder BIOS problem.
If you were doing:
grub>root (hd3,0) grub>setup (hd3)
and after that you got an error 18 or something similar you should:
- Backup every data on your pendrive (if there is something important ;) )
- Rpartition it so that you have an ext3 or a FAT32 partition at its beginning of only 300 MB.
- Install SGD into it as it is explained in the instructions
and that's it, SGD should boot now with not so much problems.
In the rest of the pendrive you can create a FAT32 or an ext3 partition for putting data.
