I was able to remove the NTFS partition and repartition the HD as a type Linux (83). Next I created the ext3 file system. If I reboot with the USB drive attached, the boot process hangs, however if I turn off the drive, boot and then turn it on, all is fine. # cat /etc/fstab shows the drive, but I am not sure how to use it for a backup nor do I know how to access it. Any help would be appreciated. The drive is /dev/sda1. Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523
Todd Cary (todd at aristesoftware.com) napisa?(a):> I was able to remove the NTFS partition and repartition the HD as a type > Linux (83). Next I created the ext3 file system. > > If I reboot with the USB drive attached, the boot process hangs, however > if I turn off the drive, boot and then turn it on, all is fine. > > # cat /etc/fstab > > shows the drive, but I am not sure how to use it for a backup nor do I > know how to access it. Any help would be appreciated. The drive is > /dev/sda1. >>From terminal You can do:mkdir /mnt/usb mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb and You will have Your stick in /mnt/usb After You finish Your work, You can umount /mnt/usb hth -- Marcin Mazurek http://www.netsync.pl/ - :::: - nic-hdl: MM3380-RIPE GnuPG 6687 E661 98B0 AEE6 DA8B 7F48 AEE4 776F 5688 DC89
This might help (hopefully) .... Get into your motherboard''s BIOS (e.g, <DEL>, <F1>, <F2> ...) as the system is coming up with the USB drive attached to the host and powered on. Look for a "Boot Priority" order type list. You will probably see the USB disk at the top of the list. Either decrease its priority (make CD-ROM / OS Hard Disk) the first choices and/or just remove the USB disk from the list altogether. Save your BIOS settings and reboot and see if that fixes the issue. The BIOS may think that the USB disk is bootable (MBR) and is trying (and probably failing) to find / boot an OS. Getting it lower on the list will insure that you regular OS disks (and possible recovery CD) do get booted first. Good Luck!! Rich -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070131/8b70a6d7/attachment.html>