[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick

[Reginald Beardsley]

Something I forgot to mention.

You're a lot better off booting from a USB disk than setting up dual boot.  Many years ago I got a system to boot Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux from the same disk.   It took about a dozen installs to figure out how to do it. (the installers kept killing each other)  Not long after that I installed removable drive trays in all my systems and stopped doing multiboots.  I won't even consider doing it now.

The only constraint on USB disk is you have to plug it into the same port each time.  But it's a much better way to do things.  I setup a friend's Dell D620 to boot Solaris 10 & Linux from a pair of USB disks w/ Vista on the internal disk.  With the boot order setup as CD-USB-HD you only need to plug in the disk and bot to get the OS of your choice.

Have Fun!
Reg

--- On Sat, 4/2/11, Andrew Myers <am2605 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Andrew Myers <am2605 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick
> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Date: Saturday, April 2, 2011, 9:12 PM
> My BIOS settings have the following:
> 
> - System Configuration
> |- SATA Operation
>   * Disabled
>   * ATA
>   * AHCI
>   * IRRT
> 
> Is disabled what I should choose?
> 
> I have Windows 7 on this machine and would prefer to dual
> boot (yeah
> yeah, don't hate me - I require it for work still). 
> Any ideas if
> changing that setting will screw up the OS I already have
> installed?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew.
> 
> >
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:27:03 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Reginald Beardsley <pulaskite at yahoo.com>
> > To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
> >        <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB
> stick
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> >
> > Look at the BIOS settings for the disk.  In
> particular you probably want IDE rather than AHCI/SATA at
> boot time.  After it boots the proper driver will get
> loaded.
> >
> 
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