mikev1
2016-02-26, 23:48
Hi all,
This is my first post on this forum so I hope you can help me out. Aroiund 6 or 8 years ago I was able to make Ubuntu run from an external HDD so I decided a week ago to do the same with Kali. I own an old Dell XPS L502X with a Samsung SDD. i have Win 7 and Mint running there. I didn't want to mess again with partitions as the SSD is only 240GB so I decided to use one of my out-of-use HDD. I took the old HDD enclosure I used all those years ago and an old 60GB HDD and after struggling with the UBS Kali installer not detecting the cd-rom and later wanting to use both internal and external swap partitions, I was finally able to install it (I choose GRUB to install on the external HDD)
Rebooted, setup BIOS to start from USB but first I got the "_" sing blinking non-stop, restart and then it stated "Operation System not found" (if you were thinking I made a mistake on the "Operation" word, I did not, it says that instead of Operating). I run again live USB and tried to reinstall GRUB on the external HDD but got error:
grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of 'overlay'
grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of 'overlay'
Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device
My external HDD was mounted so I kept trying to find something to correct the issue and one post stated to change inode size from 256 to 128 as found the GRUB does not work with 256 so umounted the partition, made the change and mount back, run the grub-install thing and it worked, unfortunately, when I rebooted, i was still getting the same error.
Any ideas?
This is my first post on this forum so I hope you can help me out. Aroiund 6 or 8 years ago I was able to make Ubuntu run from an external HDD so I decided a week ago to do the same with Kali. I own an old Dell XPS L502X with a Samsung SDD. i have Win 7 and Mint running there. I didn't want to mess again with partitions as the SSD is only 240GB so I decided to use one of my out-of-use HDD. I took the old HDD enclosure I used all those years ago and an old 60GB HDD and after struggling with the UBS Kali installer not detecting the cd-rom and later wanting to use both internal and external swap partitions, I was finally able to install it (I choose GRUB to install on the external HDD)
Rebooted, setup BIOS to start from USB but first I got the "_" sing blinking non-stop, restart and then it stated "Operation System not found" (if you were thinking I made a mistake on the "Operation" word, I did not, it says that instead of Operating). I run again live USB and tried to reinstall GRUB on the external HDD but got error:
grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of 'overlay'
grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of 'overlay'
Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device
My external HDD was mounted so I kept trying to find something to correct the issue and one post stated to change inode size from 256 to 128 as found the GRUB does not work with 256 so umounted the partition, made the change and mount back, run the grub-install thing and it worked, unfortunately, when I rebooted, i was still getting the same error.
Any ideas?