How to specify location for installation of GRUB boot loader while trying to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux on External/removable storage disk?
Issue
- There is a machine which has an internal Disk
/dev/hdaand another external disk/dev/sdaattached to it. - Need to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on
/dev/sdabut while installing thegrubboot 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/sda1which is on external/removable storage disk. - How to specify the exact location for installation of
GRUBboot loader in such cases?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (All)
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