There is another catch:
after firmware installation, usb flash remains as sda1, forcing system
disk to become sdb.
and that prevents GRUB2 from installation onto correct drive.
booting into recovery mode, and doing grub-install /dev/sdb fixed that.
Maybe it is good idea to remove flash, after firmware install?
And before partitioning.
I'll test that next time...
G
On 09/25/2012 04:00 PM, Brian Potkin wrote:
On Tue 25 Sep 2012 at 13:44:48 +0300, Gasha wrote:
During installation missing firmware bnx2 was reported. Installer was
unable to copy firmware from EXT2 formatted USB flash. Also, dialog
screen does not mention supported filesystems.
Section 6.4. of the Installation Guide points out that a FAT-formatted
USB stick is required. My experience is that the ext2/3/4 module is not
available at that stage of the install but the vfat module is.
I do not use windows (almost), and because of that fact do not have
any FAT16 formatted USB flash. Only ext2. USB flash drives larger
than 2 Gb are common. And formatting USB flash as ext2 allows to carry
DVD image files larger than 4 gb.
Mentioning FAT16 or FAT32 in dialog screen should be easy. Ext2
support could be nice also.
You can use your ext2 formatted flash drive but you have to be sneaky.
Before detecting the network hardware do "Detect disks", followed by
modprobe ext2
and
mount -text2 /dev/sdXn /media
Then back to "Detect network hardware".
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