If you plug the USB drive into a Windows system does it show as fixed or removable? If the latter, try using Lexar's BootIt! Utility to switch it to Fixed. After that, remove the 3Ware controller (and any other disks) and try installing to the USB drive again. If that works then you can plug everything else back in after you've installed.
If that doesn't work then it's probably not possible to install to USB at this time. Jason Litka | Xoxide, Inc. Manager, IT & Software Development P: (610) 251-1672 x200 F: (610) 251-0263 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Buzzard Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 7:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [OF-users] USB key and grub install issues Hum, tried an install to a USB key on a motherboard with two 3ware 7810 controllers, each with eight 320GB PATA drives attached. The intention was/is to use software RAID as it is more performant than the hardware raid of the controllers. The first issue was that although the Anaconda installer loads the usb-storage module, and if I grab a shell and do an fdisk -l it shows up, the key is not available as an install target... Testing with CentOS 5 and it shows up. Not to much of an issue I can install to one of the PATA drives and haxor it up to USB key boot. Then I hit another issue, looks like grub gets really upset if there are more than eight drives, and refuses to install on drive 17 which is where the BIOS/motherboard is placing the USB key. This sucks somewhat. I can again haxor this up with a better boot loader (I always had a dislike of grub) but perhaps this should be looked into for possible future feature improvements. I guess quite a few people might look to do something similar. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +441382-386998 Storage Administrator, College of Life Sciences University of Dundee, DD1 5EH _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
