On 4/13/12, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Wonder if it's trying to beat the rush - after weeks of googling, a few
> weeks ago, I finally found that if I formatted my 3TB drives on a 4k
> boundry, instead of a 512byte boundry, writes were literally about four
> times faster, because that's the physica
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> On a random hunch or sheer desperation, I inserted an old brandless
> 1GB USB thumbdrive, installed and it booted.
>
> Thinking that the Sandisk Ultra Backup 16GB was incompatible with
> CentOS/grub for some unknown reason. I switched to a brandless 16GB,
> installed the
On a random hunch or sheer desperation, I inserted an old brandless
1GB USB thumbdrive, installed and it booted.
Thinking that the Sandisk Ultra Backup 16GB was incompatible with
CentOS/grub for some unknown reason. I switched to a brandless 16GB,
installed the same way and it failed at grub promp
On 4/10/12, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> Have you tried the grub "find" command?
> find /grub/stage1
> find /boot/grub/stage1
> etc.
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/TroubleshootGRUB
I've tried that now but it could not find any of the files be it
stage1, grub.conf or menu.lst, also tried both
On 4/10/12, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Two questions: a) are you sure that the USB key is /dev/sda,
Yes, I've verified this before and again after you asked that it is
seen as /dev/sda, at least through the installation DVD. fdisk also
does not find a sdb/c/d if I try that.
>and b) does your syste
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 6.2 *TO* a USB drive, not installing
from USB.
On 4/10/12, Patrick DERWAEL wrote:
> Emmanuel,
> I used a totally different approach by using VMware: the trick is to
> install on a physical device which is the USB dri
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> On 4/10/12, Patrick DERWAEL wrote:
>> Emmanuel,
>> I used a totally different approach by using VMware: the trick is to
>> install on a physical device which is the USB drive.
>> When the installation requests a reboot, simply boot on your USB and off
>> you go!
>
> Tha
On 4/10/12, Patrick DERWAEL wrote:
> Emmanuel,
> I used a totally different approach by using VMware: the trick is to
> install on a physical device which is the USB drive.
> When the installation requests a reboot, simply boot on your USB and off
> you go!
That is pretty much what I did. Boot DV
On 4/10/12, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> Have you tried the grub "find" command?
> find /grub/stage1
> find /boot/grub/stage1
> etc.
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/TroubleshootGRUB
I'm deeply embarrassed and stunned by why I did not stumble across
that googling or how I could miss seeing th
Emmanuel,
I used a totally different approach by using VMware: the trick is to
install on a physical device which is the USB drive.
When the installation requests a reboot, simply boot on your USB and off
you go!
2012/4/10 Phil Schaffner
> Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote on 04/07/2012 05:51 AM:
> >
> >
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote on 04/07/2012 05:51 AM:
>
> Any ideas how I can probe/list devices within grub shell? I've done
> the stupid method of root(hd0,x) all the way up to root(hd8,3) without
> luck.
>
Have you tried the grub "find" command?
find /grub/stage1
find /boot/grub/stage1
etc.
http://
In trying to solve this problem, I came across these two articles
regarding GRUB and USB booting.
http://vlinux-freak.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-create-grub-boot-floppy-usb.html
http://bootloader.wikidot.com/linux:boot:usb-grub
The floppy drive issue appears to be the situation as booting the
re
On 4/5/12, Lamar Owen wrote:
> The grub order and names and the linux kernel/udev order and names should
> not be assumed to have any correlation of any kind, since they are
> discovered differently.
Yes, that is what I understand from the grub manual. However, from
that I also understand and exp
On Wednesday, April 04, 2012 12:38:03 PM Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> I also did try manually doing (hd0,1), (hd1,0) but none of it seemed
> to be a "findable" device. For what it's worth, the installer did see
> them as sda and sdb.
The grub order and names and the linux kernel/udev order and nam
On 4/4/12, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 04/04/2012 11:46 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
>> just does not seem to be able to find the USB drives. e.g. commands
>> like root (hd0,0) just says device not found. This is despite grub
>
> hd0,0 represents the bios device id, are you sure thats what your bi
On 04/04/2012 11:46 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> just does not seem to be able to find the USB drives. e.g. commands
> like root (hd0,0) just says device not found. This is despite grub
hd0,0 represents the bios device id, are you sure thats what your bios
thinks the usb disk is at ?
--
Karan
I'm trying to setup a very small system intended for doing
monitoring/logging. It's done on an Intel Atoms in a small box and the
idea was to simply run it off a pair of USB flash drives in software
RAID 1.
Now the problem is that while the 6.2 DVD installer could go through
the entire install pro
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