First, at present, booting from USB is impossible with VirtualBox! But there is a really easy workaround to use VMDK, which is just a container…
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Unpack centos 7 initramfs file with and without dracut skipcpio
In CentOS 7 the initramfs consists of two concatenated gzipped cpio files. If you want to check what files and probably configuration files are included…
Gentoo init – boot from linux software raid with superblock (metadata) version 1.2 and no autodetect
If you want to use software raid device in your Gentoo Linux system (init boot, not systemd) with boot partition resided in the raid for…
Centos 7 Server hangs up on boot after deleting a software raid (mdadm device)
We have a CentOS 7 server with a simple two hard drives setup in RAID1 of total 4 devices for boot, root, swap and storage….
Gentoo Minimal Installation CD (amd64 aka x86_64) – booting (in UEFI mode)
Here is the process of booting from a Gentoo Minimal Installation CD amd64 (x86_64) with UEFI mode enabled. This is not an installation guide! You…