[OpenIndiana-discuss] USB boot Sometimes?

[wim at vandenberge.us]

My guess would be that this is due to the lack of USB3 support in OpenIndiana.
Have you tried plugging the drive into a USB2 port, forcing the device into USB2
mode, and seeing if it works (I know that's not what you really want but it
would narrow down the issue)

Wim




> On March 28, 2014 at 11:35 AM "Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)"
> <openindiana at nedharvey.com> wrote:
>
>
> I installed oi server to an old slow 4G usb thumb drive as a test, just to see
> if it's possible. It worked fine; it's just slow as hell. So I bought a pair
> of 32GB usb3 fast devices, and installed oi to one of them... But grub fails.
> It just boots up to a grub menu and stops there.
>
> So I thought maybe I need to upgrade my bios... Upgraded, no effect. So I
> thought maybe there's a device size limit that I'm exceeding... So I hooked up
> an external USB 80GB hard drive. I installed to the USB 80G and booted just
> fine.
>
> Something smaller works. Something bigger works. The only thing that *doesn't*
> work is the thing I care about. Can anybody shed any light?
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