chlowden007 wrote: ↑2020/02/21 12:38:09
D'cat
Thank you for your encouraging words. What you wrote should probably be an opening advice for neophytes like myself.
There is no magic bullet
Following all the advice, I managed to boot on the machine.
I attach screen grabs of how I did it.
1. DELL BIOS check: Secure Boot off, UEFI ON with Legacy option ON.
2. Install CENTOS off a USB key using dd command.
3. Disk Format menu
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4. I set the boot device by clicking on the tiny link at the bottom of the screen.
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Selected all the drives. The OS gave me no choice.
Hummmm I did not think you planned to commit harakiri. I thought you only had *
1* drive installed, not *
3*. In the future to make sure you don't do something stupid -- like erase a disk you did not plan to erase (don't ask me how I learned this lesson) -- in the event you have multiple drives installed. First run
fdisk -l to ID all your drives to pick out the *
1* drive on which you plan to install the OS (/dev/sda; /dev/sdb; /dev/sdc; etc.) you can usually tell which drive is which based upon the size of the drive. Then open up the machine and
DISCONNECT ALL CABLES TO ALL THE OTHER DRIVES OTHER THAN THE TARGET DRIVE!!
Second I am impressed: You choose the most complex way to do the install. The far EASIER way to have done the install was to check the box (dot) that said
AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURE PARTITIONING. The Only other way which would have been far more complex would be to have done a Custom Install, but yeah that the way you did it uses the same methodology that you used.
Third out of shear CURIOSITY -- which goes with my cat-like persona -- what type of software did you install?!?
Fourth without playing with it to test my theories, I think you could have ditched the UEFI and gone with a straight Legacy system which would have only required a /boot partition.
That you got the system up and running without any help, all by yourself is a major mile stone. For a newbi: job well done -- you got it up and running!! Not a perfect job, and you could have made your life a lot easier for a first install, but you did it by yourself. In the future you will learn from your mistakes this time and refine your methodology with each subsequent install. In the future: Try not to commit harakiri -- pick ONE (1) drive and disconnect all the others. You can always connect up all the other drives AFTER you have installed the OS on your target OS.
Congratulations!!
D'Cat