"J" == Jarett DeAngelis jarett@bioteam.net writes:
Hi Jarett,
J> Hi Roland, Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! I went ahead J> and reimaged two more drives with the dd command as shown in the J> instructions. Each of them refused to even start booting. I J> checked them with the sha256sum command as shown in that post and J> they both hashed correctly, to the hash ending in fedb1 as shown J> on the download page. Where should I look next?
is it possible that you're trying to boot via UEFI. Qlustar currently only supports non-UEFI BIOS setups (Compatibility Boot Mode / CSM). Please check?
Best,
Roland
>> On Dec 16, 2019, at 7:15 AM, Roland Fehrenbacher rf@q-leap.de >> wrote: >> >>>>>>> "J" == Jarett DeAngelis jarett@bioteam.net writes: >> >> Hi Jarett, >> >> welcome on board. >> J> Hi, I have a small collection of Skylake HP desktops I'm J> deploying Qlustar onto as a lab environment. I cannot get the J> system to boot correctly. I'm using the Windows utility "Rufus" J> to image the USB stick. If I use "dd" mode, when I try to boot it J> skips right over it as though it weren't bootable. If I use "iso" J> mode, it gets about six seconds into the boot process, loading J> modules, before it complains it can't load the vfat module. It is J> indeed not in /lib! I feel like I must be doing something wrong J> here, but damned if I can figure it out solo. I have also tried J> this on a Mac and on a Linux machine with BalenaEtcher; same J> results as "iso" mode on Rufus. >> >> Sorry, but I know nothing about rufus. Please use the default dd >> route as explained in the installation guide >> >> https://docs.qlustar.com/en-US/Qlustar_Cluster_OS/11.0/html-single/Installat... >> >> In case you still have problems booting the stick after that, the >> latter is most likely corrupted (try with another one in this >> case). Please do the checks as described in >> >> https://lists.qlustar.org/hyperkitty/list/qlustar-general@qlustar.org/messag... >> >> to verify it is working correctly. >> >> Good luck, >> >> Roland