- #Install grub on usb stick from windows how to
- #Install grub on usb stick from windows install
- #Install grub on usb stick from windows drivers
- #Install grub on usb stick from windows windows 10
Rather make the mistakes and stuff with these It is terrible slow. Easier to rapidly format and try again on a USB stick and they're cheap.
#Install grub on usb stick from windows how to
I understand the life of the USB but what I'm doing right now is playing and getting to know options and how to go about things. I also wholeheartedly agree about using a USB hard drive. Essentially a graphic was of running the same terminal control commands for grub. Even move the order of the grub menu and stuff.įor a newbie like me it's really nice. Was able to stop it from looking for other OS on host computer as well as do things like disable the grub menu, set which OS is primary and even set a background image for grub lol. The latter is going to be hopelessly slow, whereas a 3.0 drive on a 2.0 port actually works pretty well.Īs much as I'm trying to do as much as possible in terminal, for this one I found a GUI called "grub customizer" that lets you completely control the grub menu. Moreover, 2.0 port isn't a tenth as important as 3.0 vs. For something more durable, you want a USB hard drive (HDD or SSD).
They're not engineered for this sort of thing. A few months of regular use, maybe a year of light use.
#Install grub on usb stick from windows drivers
Anyhoo, aside from that, you also might run into issues with drivers (especially for graphics) which limit portability.Īlso be aware, if you're doing this with a flash drive, it's likely not to last long. That can be done in VBox, by the way, and you would boot in BIOS mode.
#Install grub on usb stick from windows install
If you want to be able to do both, see hybrid install in my tutorial on full install to USB drive. If the tutorial had you boot the live session in EFI, it'll be the other way around, will work on UEFI but not BIOS machines. For example, one created from VBox ordinarily will boot only on BIOS machines.
Let me know if you need detailed instructions for that.īe aware a full install USB isn't freely portable. You can override this by adding GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true to /etc/default/grub. And, yes, by default, update-grub will add to the Grub menu any other operating systems it sees.
#Install grub on usb stick from windows windows 10
Maybe there a way to remove the stuff in grub that gives the option to boot to that one windows drive? Kind of defeats the purpose of portability when it's go junk about booting windows 10 from that one computer. It's really nice that anywhere I go I can use that USB to boot into Linux and it has all my stuff saved and everything, I use it for banking and it's encrypted.Īny knowledge from you guys would be appreciated. (Part of me want to boot from another computer and select that "start windows 10" but that drive isn't there but I worry it'll break the whole thing. Should I have just done first boot on my t420 or would that have just made grub option point to the Linux mint on that computer?Īgain, it seems I can just press enter and boot to the Linux on the USB but it bothers me I'm wondering what I did wrong for that to happen. I click start Linux and everything is fine so maybe I'm nitpicking, but first, why did it install grub when I was booting off the USB and no windows drives from that computer were mounted?Ĭan I remove that so it just boots to Linux no matter what computer I boot it in (maybe remove grub)? Obviously unless I'm using that one computer (I have 5) it's pointless to have that and even on that one windows computer, if I'm booting from the USB full install I made I don't want to boot into windows. It installed grub onto the boot of the USB and now, even in a different computer, it boots up to grub and the bottom option is to boot windows 10 from the nvme drive that the windows computer I did the updates has. That went well also, but something weird happened. Next came the first boot and with how long it took with the Thinkpad, I booted the USB in my windows machine that has USB 3.0 because I knew it has alot of initial updates after install. Every went fine but slow since my t420 has USB 2.0 on it.
Used virtualbox with no hard drive and booted live from Linux live iso, then proceeded to do the install. Ok, so I saw a cool video about fully installing Linux on a flash drive for mobility (and easier than a live with persistence with my level of understanding).