[CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

> Bowie Bailey wrote, On 05/26/2010 10:59 AM:
>> I successfully created an install media on a USB flash drive, but now I
>> have a minor problem installing from it.  Whenever I run the installer,
>> it insists on installing grub on /dev/sdb (the flash drive) rather than
>> /dev/sda (the hard drive where I'm installing everything).
>>
>> Is there a way to convince the installer to put grub in the right
>> place?
>
> If you are installing from a kickstart, or at least preparing the install
> using KS, yes.
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So, if you're *not*, and you just want to install on a new drive, then the
Grand Unified Boot Loader religiously won't let you do what you want,
since, it's *sure* (the same way M$ is), that it knows how to do this *so*
much better than you do, and if you want to do it any other way, why
that's the *wrong* way, and will do everything it can to keep you from
doing it the "wrong" way.

Next time I bounce my system at home, I really ought to plug in /dev/hda
again, and maybe I can access stuff on it - I had to physically unplug it,
because a straight install *refused* to install the boot record in the MBR
on /dev/sda....

          mark