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: 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 > > > > Paul Johnston > > Humanities ICT (Infrastructure) > > Samuel Alexander Building > > Room W1.19 > > Tel Internal 63327 > > > > e-mail Paul.Johnston at manchester.ac.uk > <mailto:Paul.Johnston at manchester.ac.uk> > > web http://servalan.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/users/mcasspj/ > <http://servalan.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/users/mcasspj/> > > > > Tuzoqlar granatalardan yuksak darajali portlovchi moddalardan yoki > bosshqa narslardan qilingan? > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > >
