[Gluster-users] Booting from usb

[Paul Johnston]

I changed the blocksize to 16384 as used when writing milax to usb
sticks and that seems to works :-)

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org
[mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of John Preston
Sent: 22 July 2010 16:41
To: Gluster General Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Booting from usb

I had that same problem, and I solved it by going in the BIOS and
changing some usb settings that made the board see the usb memory stick
as a fixed size. can't remember the exact settings. Check if there are
any special usb settings in your boards BIOS.

John

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Paul Johnston <
paul.a.johnston at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have just downloaded the Gluster Storage Platform 3.0.4 and copied 
> it to a Verbatim 2GB usb stick
>
> However when I try and boot from it I just get the message "Error 
> loading operating system"
>
>
>
> Mounting the usb stick on a fedora 13 machine I see the following 
> which I can browse and it seems okay.
>
>
>
> The machine is a Dell Optiplex 755
>
>
>
>
>
> The stick has two directories on it,
>
> .:
>
> total 16
>
> drwx------. 2 paulj paulj 8192 May 11 15:48 LiveOS
>
> drwx------. 2 paulj paulj 8192 May 11 15:48 syslinux
>
>
>
> ./LiveOS:
>
> total 442240
>
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 paulj paulj      8192 May 11 15:48 osmin.img
>
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 paulj paulj 452841472 May 11 15:48 squashfs.img
>
>
>
> ./syslinux:
>
> total 16944
>
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 paulj paulj    2048 May 11 15:48 boot.cat
>
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 paulj paulj 5279912 May 11 15:48 initrd0.img
>
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 paulj paulj 5262597 May 11 15:48 initrd1.img
>
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 paulj paulj   14336 May 11 15:48 isolinux.bin
>
> -r-xr-xr-x. 1 paulj paulj   14445 May 11 15:48 ldlinux.sys
>
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 paulj paulj  160280 May 11 15:48 memtest
>
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 paulj paulj   12454 May 11 15:48 splash.jpg
>
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 paulj paulj   31866 May 11 15:48 splash.xpm.gz
>
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 paulj paulj     874 May 11 15:48 syslinux.cfg
>
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 paulj paulj  147728 May 11 15:48 vesamenu.c32
>
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 paulj paulj 3257168 May 11 15:48 vmlinuz0
>
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 paulj paulj 3118000 May 11 15:48 vmlinuz1
>
>
>
> Regards Paul
>
>
>
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