Excuse me.
The obvious solution for my problem is to change the hardware. Instead I will use it, it is a small Fujitsu pc q9000 and can give me the adeguate storage capacity and performance.
All work fine except the bios that don't want remember the boot order between usb stick and the sata hard disk. Even after the change of bios setting, it save, automatically bios try to boot from the sata hard disk and not from usb. The bios is at the latest level available.
No isn't a general bios problem. It keep saved ALL choices EXCEPT the order within hard disks proirity. It keep proiority within network, cdrom, hard disk etc. The problem is not the battery.
To boot I must keeep connected a keybord and video, press F12 and choose manually the usb stick. The boot can't be UNATTENDED.
The hardware is not assembled, is is a small form factor pc Fujitsu esprimo q9000, it is based upon Intel chipset QM57, have Intel core I5 and have 8Gb of Ram. It have two sata internal port, one used for primary 2.5 inch HD, the second originally for optical now used with a caddy for the second 2.5 inch HD. Both HD is configured for a raid1 volume. The data stored in the volume is only for test so it can be lost.
It have also an eSata connector I will keep free for plug disk for external backup.
One my idea is to reduce the partition on the HD and obtain space for an ext3 small partition for use as boot and install grub on it.
More simple but I don't have idea to do it, install somthing ( like a stage1 grub ) on a MBR of the primary HD but I don't know how to obtain or build it to load and execute the stage1 or stage2 on the usb stick.
It is possible ? Someone have already documented this ? Are there more easy solutions ?
Thanks at all.
The obvious solution for my problem is to change the hardware. Instead I will use it, it is a small Fujitsu pc q9000 and can give me the adeguate storage capacity and performance.
All work fine except the bios that don't want remember the boot order between usb stick and the sata hard disk. Even after the change of bios setting, it save, automatically bios try to boot from the sata hard disk and not from usb. The bios is at the latest level available.
No isn't a general bios problem. It keep saved ALL choices EXCEPT the order within hard disks proirity. It keep proiority within network, cdrom, hard disk etc. The problem is not the battery.
To boot I must keeep connected a keybord and video, press F12 and choose manually the usb stick. The boot can't be UNATTENDED.
The hardware is not assembled, is is a small form factor pc Fujitsu esprimo q9000, it is based upon Intel chipset QM57, have Intel core I5 and have 8Gb of Ram. It have two sata internal port, one used for primary 2.5 inch HD, the second originally for optical now used with a caddy for the second 2.5 inch HD. Both HD is configured for a raid1 volume. The data stored in the volume is only for test so it can be lost.
It have also an eSata connector I will keep free for plug disk for external backup.
One my idea is to reduce the partition on the HD and obtain space for an ext3 small partition for use as boot and install grub on it.
More simple but I don't have idea to do it, install somthing ( like a stage1 grub ) on a MBR of the primary HD but I don't know how to obtain or build it to load and execute the stage1 or stage2 on the usb stick.
It is possible ? Someone have already documented this ? Are there more easy solutions ?
Thanks at all.
