problem after installing from disk on key

[nadavh]

Hi Forum.

Since my laptop has no dvd drive i created a disk on key with Fedora 15 on it and used it as the install media.
the install process went well and i have fedora installed on my machine.

one problem, it will only boot when the disk-on-key is inserted, if i remove it and reboot i get the following message:

error: file not found
grub rescue >

it looks like the boot loader looks for the files in the disk-on-key, however grub.cont shows the boot device is ( (hd2,0) which i think is my hdd.

any thoughts?

Regards,
Nadav.

[sea]

"Disk on key" what does that mean?
Do you refer to get an ISO file onto an USB stick?

If you're having 3 physical harddisks in your computer, then yes.
Otherwise, i dont know if it *maybe* looks for an usb-external-hdd?

First off, open a partition tool, dont change anything, but have a look for the partitions/disk names/descriptions.
Look for /dev/sdaX /dev/sdbX /dev/sdcX
Where X can by any number, and refer to the partition 'id' of that drive or media.

Out of personal prefernces i'd suggest you the following:

dd if=/path/to/file.iso dd=/path/to/usb/stick

Example:

cd ~/Downloads
dd if=fedora15-live-lxde-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdb1

Where /dev/sdb1 is the first partition (with bootflag) of my usb stick.

Boot from USB and try reinstall.

[RalphCC]

What are your other two disks, hd0 & hd1?, then we can work out if you have installed to the right place.
Ralph.

[stoat]

I would boot the hard drive system with the USB device connected. Then eject the USB device and re-install the GRUB boot loader in the master boot record of the first hard drive via the traditional methods in a terminal of the running Fedora system. After that, I would expect GRUB to be launched directly from BIOS and then subsequently boot Fedora (I guess that is what you want to happen). If you have another operating system's boot loader in that master boot record, then its boot loader will be busted, and you will have to configure GRUB to boot it.

P.S.: There are various other ways to deal with a matter like this.