Debian Squeeze/Wheezy on Ultra 2?

norbolt wrote:
5. profit

And then, just

grub-install /dev/sdc

?

Why aren't more people doing this? :?:

mdgm wrote:
If you wipe the Internal flash you would need to make use of USB Boot Recovery to restore it but the EEPROM data would be lost. Without the EEPROM data RAIDiator x86 4.2.x won't work.

Thanks. 6.x works though?

Yes. 6.x works, I think.

mangrove wrote:
And then, just grub-install /dev/sdc ? Why aren't more people doing this? :?:

GRUB on the USB stick? Or what?

norbolt wrote:
mangrove wrote: And then, just grub-install /dev/sdc ? Why aren't more people doing this? :?: GRUB on the USB stick? Or what?

Yes, running "real" systems on them. It looks easier than I thought it would be.

Hello,

I have a problem to load the installer once reaching "boot:". When I enter "install video=off console=ttyS0,9600n8" I have the error "Undefined video mode number: 314". I tried to remove the video=off, but same error occured.

When happening, it proposes me to display available mode. I tried the first one "0" and then the following error happened:

[    1.045676] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0)
[    1.049523] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.9-1-486 #1 Debian 3.9.8-1
[    1.049523] Call Trace:
[    1.049523]  [<c12b1573>] ? panic+0x6c/0x152
[    1.049523]  [<c1429d17>] ? mount_block_root+0x1e8/0x20a
[    1.049523]  [<c1002930>] ? do_alignment_check+0x15/0x73
[    1.049523]  [<c1429d77>] ? mount_root+0x3e/0x52
[    1.049523]  [<c1429e99>] ? prepare_namespace+0x10e/0x13e
[    1.049523]  [<c1429a88>] ? kernel_init_freeable+0x160/0x168
[    1.049523]  [<c12ae520>] ? kernel_init+0x5/0xb0
[    1.049523]  [<c12b8abb>] ? ret_from_kernel_thread+0x1b/0x30
[    1.049523]  [<c12ae51b>] ? rest_init+0x4f/0x4f

I also tried: linux text console=ttyS0,9600,n8 but same error occured.

I have a ReadyNas ultra2, I prepared my debian installer USB key under MacOs by doing the following:
sudo gunzip -c boot.img.gz > /dev/disk2

Then I copied the iso file debian-7.1.0-i386-netinst.iso to the usb key.

Thanks for your help.

I was wondering if the netgear X-RAID installation could lead to the problem ? The previous error seems to come from missing modules/fonctionality of the kernel.


Does someone have an idea about that ?

mangrove wrote:
norbolt wrote: mangrove wrote: And then, just grub-install /dev/sdc ? Why aren't more people doing this? :?: GRUB on the USB stick? Or what? Yes, running "real" systems on them. It looks easier than I thought it would be.

Because it's hard to find a step-by-step guide? :-P

I've been searching all over the place trying to find some good instructions, but have yet to find any.

mangrove wrote:
norbolt wrote: 5. profit And then, just grub-install /dev/sdc ? Why aren't more people doing this? :?:

I just tried doing this, and now I can no longer boot my Ultra 4. Grub is apparently installed on the usb stick, but it cannot find its files so it ends up in recovery mode (grub+kernels are stored on an ext2fs on the SMI stick).
It'd probably be a somewhat easy thing to fix - if USB booting still worked. But now, holding "backup" no longer boots external USB, not even if I remove all the drives.

Edit: I'm a moron, sorry. I wrote grub on the wrong usb stick somehow.

So now it works? :-)