On 12/13/2015 05:00 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:48:25 -0500 ken wrote:
>
>> So far I've created on this new laptop a big, empty partition; in
>> the BIOS enabled legacy booting and disabled UEFI; also in BIOS
>> under Legacy Boot Order set "USB diskette on key/USB hard disk" on
>> second priority. I've tried to boot from a usb thumbdrive three
>> times and it failed all three times. I'm not understanding what's
>> wrong.
>
> I install Centos on pretty much everything by setting the bios to use
> USB as the primary boot device, then booting the Centos Live Image
> from a flash drive, then hitting the "install to hard drive" icon on
> the Live Desktop. After the installation is complete, set the bios
> back to use the hard drive as the primary boot device and you're all
> set.
Aha! The problem was that, despite legacy was enabled and uefi was
disabled, the bios followed 'uefi boot order' and disregarded 'legacy
boot order'. Once I changed uefi boot order appropriately, the bios
booted the thumbdrive.
However, when the centos menu came up, i.e.:
Install CentOS 7
Test this media & install CentOS 7
Troubleshooting -->
[use 'e' or 'c' keys]
regardless of which of the above three I selected via right-arrow, I was
prompted by:
error: invalid magic number.
error: you need to load the kernel first.
Press any key to continue...
I tried also using the 'e' and 'c' keys off this menu; this brought into
other menus (which are too much to type up) and on another menu where ^E
and ^X can be used to 'edit' and 'execute' boot statements, none of
which works correctly or is obvious what to alter or enter.
I also got into an interface with a 'grub>' prompt. I tried some of the
grub commands, but had little clue what to do with that. E.g.,
"linuxefi /isolinux/isolinux.bin" returned "error: invalid magic
number." Interesting, but not getting CentOS 7 booted.
Any know what else is possible?