On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
# Not totally true. 5.4 was released in 2005 whereas newest motherboard with
# which I faced personally problems booting from USB was from 2003. And it
# actually declares that it can boot from USB.
5.4 seemed to actually have many issues with USB; some devices
work, others cause kernel panics as soon as they hit the socket, so I
generally avoid them on the machine (which causes no end of trouble for
backups :)
# However it's quite possible the hardware would not boot from USB stick. This
An interesting idea to boot from USB here; I've often flirted with
the idea of using the local-disk for storage, and the OS from flash media,
and thus being able to swap easily without a hypervisor/etc.
Anyway, as this box is a shell, mailserver, low end webserver etc,
fairly dedicated in function, I think my best route will be to buy another
disk (I mean, theyu're cheap right?) and do the jump straight to a fresh-8
install, harden it up, and do the piecemeal migration. Worst case is I go
back to the existing drive for a few days until I get it all working.
Thanks for the many tips my friends,
jeff
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If everyone would put barbecue sauce on their food, there would be no war.
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