[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick

[Lou Picciano]

Andrew, 


Welcome to Oi! 


Yeah, a couple of us were just struggling with getting our old Dells to boot Oi - in my case, under duress! It can be a pain. 


Problem is probably in your grub setup. Check what you've got working in your USB stick (you only need about 2GB, btw), then transfer that to your grub lines on the hard disk install. You may already know, you can hit 'e' to edit your grub lines. To get a jump on this, check the transcripts of the IRC channel; a couple of us were bangin' around on exactly this this weekend. 


By the time I get back to the list, if you haven't already solved it, either I will have checked my notes - or any of virtually all the folks here who know a lot more about it than I do! - will have. 


You'll get it going. Lou Picciano 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Myers" <am2605 at gmail.com> 
To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org 
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 8:22:10 PM 
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick 

Hi, 

I have a dell latitude E6400 laptop on which unfortunately I cannot 
seem to get OI working, unless I boot it from a USB stick (the Live CD 
will not boot). I have a feeling this has something to do with the 
hard drive controller, but I am not really enough of a tech head to 
figure it out. 

So I had the idea that I could boot via the USB, and then use a 
another 64Gb stick and install OI on there. I thought that worked, 
because I ran the installer and it seemed to complete successfully. 
It rebooted from the 64G and I was able to use OI. However after 
shutting down that session, I cannot reboot again from the 64G USB 
stick. It gets to the "Splash Screen" but just reboots shortly after. 

In theory is what I'm doing (ie. install to USB rather than a HDD) 
going to work? And if so, is there any way I can try and debug why it 
fails on subsequent reboots? 

Regards, 
Andrew. 

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