Re: [CentOS] USB stick query

2015-07-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
Chris Murphy wrote: On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: On 07/03/2015 03:43 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I've tried this again, and it does not seem to work. Have you actually tried it? I don't have a CentOS system here that I can

Re: [CentOS] USB stick query

2015-07-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/03/2015 03:43 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I've tried this again, and it does not seem to work. Have you actually tried it? I don't have a CentOS system here that I can reboot readily. And it occurs to me that if I did, I didn't ask if your system boots via BIOS or UEFI. If it's BIOS, I

Re: [CentOS] USB stick query

2015-07-05 Thread Timothy Murphy
Gordon Messmer wrote: On 07/03/2015 03:43 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I've tried this again, and it does not seem to work. Have you actually tried it? I don't have a CentOS system here that I can reboot readily. And it occurs to me that if I did, I didn't ask if your system boots via BIOS

Re: [CentOS] USB stick query

2015-07-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: On 07/03/2015 03:43 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I've tried this again, and it does not seem to work. Have you actually tried it? I don't have a CentOS system here that I can reboot readily. And it

Re: [CentOS] USB stick query

2015-07-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
Gordon Messmer wrote: On 07/01/2015 06:02 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I also tried sudo grub2-install /dev/sdb but for some reason this did not do the trick. That should place a boot loader on sdb that will boot the system. What behavior did you observe when you tried to boot from that USB

Re: [CentOS] USB stick query

2015-07-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/01/2015 06:02 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I also tried sudo grub2-install /dev/sdb but for some reason this did not do the trick. That should place a boot loader on sdb that will boot the system. What behavior did you observe when you tried to boot from that USB drive?

[CentOS] USB stick query

2015-07-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
I have a working CentOS-7 machine. I want to install grub2 on a USB stick (without altering my present system in any way) so that I can boot the present system from the USB stick. Could some kind (and expert) soul explain precisely what to do. If it were possible to boot other systems on the

Re: [CentOS] USB stick query

2015-07-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
Gordon Messmer wrote: I also tried sudo grub2-install /dev/sdb but for some reason this did not do the trick. That should place a boot loader on sdb that will boot the system. What behavior did you observe when you tried to boot from that USB drive? The dreaded recurrent -. -- Timothy