CAcert System Admins discussion list

[Mendel Mobach <extern AT leercoden.nl>]

On Jul 2, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Jan Dittberner wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Wytze van der Raay wrote:
> > Op 2-7-2011 3:11, 
> > ulrich AT cacert.org
> >  schreef:
> > > usb legacy support  is one option in many bios'es
> > > if you don't have an usb mouse and usb keyboard connected
> > > disable usb legacy support might be an option
> >
> > Please believe me ... Mendel is no fool and has attempted all
> > available options, only to find that they didn't work.
> >
> > A BIOS upgrade as suggested by Mario *might* change the picture,
> > but it's not a simple operation -- it appears to require combined
> > upgrades of all the firmware components in the ILO processor (it
> > was never touched since installation in 2007).
> >
> > Remote switchable power or some NAS-like connection appear the most
> > promising "solutions", but will require extra equipment.
>
> Maybe getting a Grub2 MBR on that USB disk that uses the configuration
> on the system disk, as suggested by Guillaume, might be an option. As
> far as I remember you can tell Grub install where it should put its
> stage 1 (MBR code) and where it finds its stage 2 (grub.cfg).

No. the USB disk does contain a lot of 0's on the boot block (damn, I  
even checked it). Just like every freaking CF card I own and did not  
modify to boot.

As for bios updates: I guess it won't be fixed in the past. We could  
always buy a new sun, they do understand larger USB disks.

Kind regards,

Mendel Mobach - connecting a raid via USB, no-one back in 2002 took  
that serious.