On 4/10/12, m.r...@5-cent.us 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)
On 4/10/12, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov 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
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
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 same
On 4/13/12, m.r...@5-cent.us 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
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
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.
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 philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote on
On 4/10/12, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov 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
On 4/10/12, Patrick DERWAEL patr...@derwael.be 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
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 4/10/12, Patrick DERWAEL patr...@derwael.be 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!
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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 patr...@derwael.be wrote:
Emmanuel,
I used a totally different approach by using VMware: the trick is to
install on a physical device which is the USB
On 4/5/12, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu 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
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
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 ?
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On 4/4/12, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org 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
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 names
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