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Debian Squeeze/Wheezy on Ultra 2?
Is there a way to get rid of all the netgear stuff and just install vanilla Debian on the Ultra 2? I connected a serial adapter and I'm able to fiddle with the BIOS and select a USB stick as the st...
mangrove wrote:
norbolt wrote: 5. profit
And then, justgrub-install /dev/sdc
?
Why aren't more people doing this? :?:
I just tried doing this, and now I can no longer boot my Ultra 4. Grub is apparently installed on the usb stick, but it cannot find its files so it ends up in recovery mode (grub+kernels are stored on an ext2fs on the SMI stick).
It'd probably be a somewhat easy thing to fix - if USB booting still worked. But now, holding "backup" no longer boots external USB, not even if I remove all the drives.
Edit: I'm a moron, sorry. I wrote grub on the wrong usb stick somehow.
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