Re: [CentOS] Installing from USB

2015-07-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I found this http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey > > So for centos 7 if did the dd command seemed to work great. > I did the install. > > So now I'd like to "modify" the USB key to add a boot menu option with my > customer install op

[CentOS] Installing from USB

2015-07-12 Thread Jerry Geis
I found this http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey So for centos 7 if did the dd command seemed to work great. I did the install. So now I'd like to "modify" the USB key to add a boot menu option with my customer install options. I mounted /dev/sdb2 and edited the file /mnt/usb/EFI/BOOT

Re: [CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

2010-05-27 Thread Bowie Bailey
JohnS wrote: > For others that are saying it want update the boot config then you may > have something wrong somewhere because it should plain out update it. > We know that it should update the boot config. And under most circumstances, it does. The problem is that under some conditions, whil

Re: [CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

2010-05-26 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 05/26/2010 11:57 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Bowie wrote: > >> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> Bowie wrote: >> And, in fact, that is exactly what happened. The default= line was set >> to 1, so it booted the old kernel instead of the new one. Other than >> that, it seems to be fine.

Re: [CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

2010-05-26 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 15:29 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > It's not the stick of RAM - it's the fact the the grub conf editing is > set up to match your initial kernel type and isn't triggered by the > install of the PAE kernel or it's subsequent updates. Look in > /etc/sysconfig/kernel. ---

Re: [CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

2010-05-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/26/2010 3:17 PM, JohnS wrote: > > And, in fact, that is exactly what happened. The default= line was set > to 1, so it booted the old kernel instead of the new one. Other than > that, it seems to be fine. I wonder what causes that? I've never > noticed that behavior in my o

Re: [CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

2010-05-26 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 15:07 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 5/26/2010 2:37 PM, JohnS wrote: > > > >>> And, in fact, that is exactly what happened. The default= line was set > >>> to 1, so it booted the old kernel instead of the new one. Other than > >>> that, it seems to be fine. I wonder what

Re: [CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

2010-05-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/26/2010 2:37 PM, JohnS wrote: > >>> And, in fact, that is exactly what happened. The default= line was set >>> to 1, so it booted the old kernel instead of the new one. Other than >>> that, it seems to be fine. I wonder what causes that? I've never >>> noticed that behavior in my other sys

Re: [CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

2010-05-26 Thread m . roth
> > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:57 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Bowie wrote: >> > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> >> Bowie wrote: >> >> >> Once it's on, it's fairly stable... though the update of the kernel >> >> does *not* always work correctly. With nearly 200 machines that I'm >> >> rolling out >>

Re: [CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

2010-05-26 Thread Bowie Bailey
JohnS wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:57 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Bowie wrote: >> >>> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Bowie wrote: >> >> Once it's on, it's fairly stable... though the update of the kernel does *not* always work correctly. W

Re: [CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

2010-05-26 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:57 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Bowie wrote: > > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Bowie wrote: > > >> Once it's on, it's fairly stable... though the update of the kernel does > >> *not* always work correctly. With nearly 200 machines that I'm rolling > >> out > >> updates

Re: [CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

2010-05-26 Thread m . roth
Bowie wrote: > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Bowie wrote: >> Once it's on, it's fairly stable... though the update of the kernel does >> *not* always work correctly. With nearly 200 machines that I'm rolling >> out >> updates to, not infrequently, I'll see that the default= line in >> /etc/grub.conf

Re: [CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

2010-05-26 Thread Bowie Bailey
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Bowie wrote: > > >> Agreed. It's truly obnoxious that we can specify which drive to install >> the OS onto, but we can't specify where to put the boot loader. >> >> What I did was skip the grub install and then install it from the rescue >> prompt. Unfortunately, this

Re: [CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

2010-05-26 Thread m . roth
Bowie wrote: > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Bowie Bailey wrote, On 05/26/2010 10:59 AM: >>> I successfully created an install media on a USB flash drive, but now I have a minor problem installing from it. Whenever I run the installer, it insists on installing grub on /dev/sdb (the fl

Re: [CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

2010-05-26 Thread Bowie Bailey
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Bowie Bailey wrote, On 05/26/2010 10:59 AM: >> >>> I successfully created an install media on a USB flash drive, but now I >>> have a minor problem installing from it. Whenever I run the installer, >>> it insists on installing grub on /dev/sdb (the flash drive) rath

Re: [CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

2010-05-26 Thread m . roth
> Bowie Bailey wrote, On 05/26/2010 10:59 AM: >> I successfully created an install media on a USB flash drive, but now I >> have a minor problem installing from it. Whenever I run the installer, >> it insists on installing grub on /dev/sdb (the flash drive) rather than >> /dev/sda (the hard drive

Re: [CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

2010-05-26 Thread Todd Denniston
Bowie Bailey wrote, On 05/26/2010 10:59 AM: > I successfully created an install media on a USB flash drive, but now I > have a minor problem installing from it. Whenever I run the installer, > it insists on installing grub on /dev/sdb (the flash drive) rather than > /dev/sda (the hard drive where

[CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

2010-05-26 Thread Bowie Bailey
I successfully created an install media on a USB flash drive, but now I have a minor problem installing from it. Whenever I run the installer, it insists on installing grub on /dev/sdb (the flash drive) rather than /dev/sda (the hard drive where I'm installing everything). Is there a way to convi