Re: [CentOS] CentOS LiveCD on USB

2013-11-20 Thread m . roth
Timothy Murphy wrote: > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Are you trying to boot from the USB? If so, I'd fix the grub menu on >> that, if it's on /dev/sda1 of the flash drive, to use /dev/sda2 for the root= > > I don't think this is good advice. > It is much better to use the UUID, "root=UUID=..." > wh

Re: [CentOS] CentOS LiveCD on USB

2013-11-20 Thread Timothy Murphy
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Are you trying to boot from the USB? If so, I'd fix the grub menu on that, > if it's on /dev/sda1 of the flash drive, to use /dev/sda2 for the root= I don't think this is good advice. It is much better to use the UUID, "root=UUID=..." where the UUID can be found by blkid

Re: [CentOS] CentOS LiveCD on USB

2013-11-19 Thread m . roth
Glenn Eychaner wrote: > I had already gotten rid of rghb. The grub2 entry on the key for booting > the LiveCD reads: > > menuentry "CentOS 6.4 Live" { > set root=(hd0,1) > linux /CentOS-Live/isolinux/vmlinuz0 root=UUID=A352-6D7C ro liveimg > nodiskmount nolvmmount selinux=disabled live_dir=/CentOS_

Re: [CentOS] CentOS LiveCD on USB

2013-11-19 Thread Glenn Eychaner
On Nov 19, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Glenn Eychaner wrote: > Possibly a hardware incompatibility? (I haven't been able to test a LiveCD in > the optical drive yet, but will do so now.) The system boots a liveCD from the DVD drive just fine. It boots CentOS 6.4 from the hard disk. It boots everything BU

Re: [CentOS] CentOS LiveCD on USB

2013-11-19 Thread Glenn Eychaner
On Nov 19, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Glenn Eychaner wrote: > I had already gotten rid of rghb. The grub2 entry on the key for booting the > LiveCD reads: > [...] > linux /CentOS-Live/isolinux/vmlinuz0 root=UUID=A352-6D7C ro liveimg > nodiskmount nolvmmount selinux=disabled live_dir=/CentOS_Live/LiveOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS LiveCD on USB

2013-11-19 Thread Glenn Eychaner
I had already gotten rid of rghb. The grub2 entry on the key for booting the LiveCD reads: menuentry "CentOS 6.4 Live" { set root=(hd0,1) linux /CentOS-Live/isolinux/vmlinuz0 root=UUID=A352-6D7C ro liveimg nodiskmount nolvmmount selinux=disabled live_dir=/CentOS_Live/LiveOS initrd /CentOS-Live/is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS LiveCD on USB

2013-11-19 Thread m . roth
Glenn Eychaner wrote: > I have been following these instructions: > https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=501 > to put a bunch of utilities (Clonezilla, SystemRescue, CentOS > netinstall/rescue, etc.) on a single USB key. It works great for everything (including > Ubuntu Live) except the C

[CentOS] CentOS LiveCD on USB

2013-11-19 Thread Glenn Eychaner
I have been following these instructions: https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=501 to put a bunch of utilities (Clonezilla, SystemRescue, CentOS netinstall/rescue, etc.) on a single USB key. It works great for everything (including Ubuntu Live) except the CentOS 6.4 LiveCD. (You can see