[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to create a bootable USB stick on OI?

[Gary Mills]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:05:08PM -0400, Albert Lee wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > Has anybody figured out how to do this?  I need to update the BIOS on
> > a system with a Tyan motherboard.  Tyan support sent me an EXE file
> > and a BAT file along with the BIOS image as a ROM file.
> 
> If you have GRUB booting on this system already, you don't need a USB
> stick. Take a FreeDOS floppy or disk image [1] and memdisk from
> SYSLINUX [2].
> 
> cp memdisk /boot
> cp whatever.img /boot/freedos.img
> mount -F pcfs -o loop /boot/freedos.img /mnt
> cp <files> /mnt
> umount /mnt
> 
> Append to menu.lst (for a pool named rpool):
> title Firmware Update
> findroot (pool_rpool,0,a)
> kernel /boot/memdisk
> module /boot/freedos.img
> 
> For the 10M disk image, substitute 'kernel /boot/memdisk harddisk c=19
> h=16 s=63'
> 
> [1] http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/ has 2.88M image and a 10M disk image.
> [2] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ includes
> precompiled binaries

Thanks.  I understand now that this all goes into the root pool on the
existing OI system.  If this information isn't on the OI or illumos
web sites, it should be.

What if I really do want to create a bootable USB stick.  Is this
possible on OI?

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-Gary Mills-		-refurb-		-Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-