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<P>Hello,</P>
<P>I seek your help in debugging a boot process that fails. Does PVE have any "cheat codes" like Knoppix offers to manipulate the boot process? Is there any way to pause the boot process so that I may read the console messages to get a sense as to what is going wrong? If nothing else, it would be great to change the retry period to something longer than 5 seconds so that I would be able to scroll back and read the console messages.</P>
<P>I am trying to create a bootable USB hard drive so that I can dual boot Windows and PVE on my laptop. I believe that I need to dual boot rather than run Windows as a guest because I use the laptop for performing and composing music and the device drivers may not work well in a virtual environment. But that may turn out not to be necessary after I conduct some side-by-side performance tests. Until then, I have to use an external device because PVE takes over the entire drive upon which it is installed and so it would clobber my existing Windows.</P>
<P>I installed PVE 1.3 onto the USB drive and the installation appeared to go pretty well. However, when I boot from the USB drive, it eventually aborts with a Kernel panic after attempting to mount /dev/mapper/pve-root on /mnt and gives-up ater 3 tries.</P>
<P>I tried to scroll back to see the console messages but don't get very far in the 5 seconds that PVE gives me between retries. Scolling is no longer possible once the Kernel quits.</P>
<P>Any advice on how to proceed from here would be greatly appreciated. ProxMox is doing a two-phase boot so we should be able to boot from USB devices once we can determine what is going wrong. For anyone interested in learning along with me, here's a link to a good article on booting Linux from external USB and Firewire devices: <A href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fireboot.html?ca=dgr-lnxw09FireBoot" target=_blank>http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fireboot.html?ca=dgr-lnxw09FireBoot</A> </P>
<P>Thanks for your assistance,</P>
<P>Max</P>
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