RE: installing grub2-1.99 on usb failed

[lode leroy]

>On 17.05.2011 13:51, lode leroy wrote:
>> root:~# grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/stick/boot /dev/loop0
>Use experimental with kpartx or add --modules=part_msdos.
>
>-- 
>Regards
>Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

thanks. the "--modules=part_msdos" would probably have done the trick too,
but the problem in this case was that the generated "device.map" is empty.

I put the following into the device.map file, and then it worked just fine.

(hd0)        /dev/loop0
(hd0,msdos1) /dev/loop1