How to specify location for installation of GRUB boot loader while trying to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux on External/removable storage disk?

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Issue

  • There is a machine which has an internal Disk /dev/hda and another external disk /dev/sda attached to it.
  • Need to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on /dev/sda but while installing the grub boot loader, its showing only few options specifying as follows.
    The GRUB boot loader will be installed on /dev/hda
    No boot loader will be installed
  • But there is a need of boot loader to boot the machine, and need to specify the location /dev/sda1 which is on external/removable storage disk.
  • How to specify the exact location for installation of GRUB boot loader in such cases?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (All)

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