[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick

[Dave Miner]

On 03/29/11 08:43 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
> In *theory* it can be done.  Go look at the OpenSolaris Caiman package.  It has a utility for that, usbgen. I've not gotten it to work, but I gave up fairly quickly as at that point I'd invested almost 3 weeks trying to find a way to clone S10 installs w/ a ZFS root.
>
> I'm highly *not* happy, but I thought I'd lick my wounds for a while before I tried again.
>

usbgen is used to generate the USB stick images from ISO's, which 
doesn't seem to be the question here.

In general, installing to USB drives will work.  However, booting from 
USB drives will usually require that they be inserted into the same USB 
slot every time.  It's unclear whether that was the case here.

Dave

> --- On Tue, 3/29/11, Andrew Myers<am2605 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> From: Andrew Myers<am2605 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick
>> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
>> Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 7:22 PM
>> 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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