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 > 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 ca

Re: [CentOS] USB stick query

2015-07-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Timothy Murphy 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 >> occ

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 B

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

2015-07-03 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 t

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 "-". --

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? _