USB booting :: Frugal USB boot fails: 'Missing Operating System'

BTW, I forgot to mention, after getting grub to install correctly by disconnecting all my other drives, I reconnected them. Now when you choose the correct boot device from the BIOS (USBzip or hdd)
it works. The next trick is making sure your menu.lst has the right paths etc.

Hey Mike, can you post your config file in this thread?

Thanks Mike & ~thc for solutions. I unplugged the only hard drive from the system I am using to install DSL to my USB thumbdrive. Booted from the CD, did the frugal-grub install to sda1. Mounted that partition, edited /boot/grub/device.map so it contained only:

(hd0) /dev/sda

Then installed grub again.

Code Sample

# grub-install /dev/sda --root-directory=/mnt/sda1
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /mnt/sda1/boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

(hd0) /dev/sda

Booted from the thumbdrive, and lo and behold, grub worked!

The system began uncompressing the kernel, the DSL splash screen went by, and things were whizzing along nicely...

UNTIL...

Code Sample

Scanning for USB devices... Done.
Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
Press reset button to quit.

Additional builtin commands avaliable[sic]:
cat mount umount
insmod rmmod lsmod

knoppix#

To be continued in a new thread:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=11409

original here.