[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

[Stephan Althaus]

On 8/13/21 11:13 PM, Carl Brewer wrote:
> On 13/08/2021 11:34 pm, Stephan Althaus wrote:
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>> Hi Carl!
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>> Assuming still that it is a USB problem...(?)
>> If you have a spare SATA drive, you could write the USB image to that
>> drive and use that to boot - to circumvent all the USB stuff.
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>> i think i did that once some years ago.
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> Interesting - how would I do that to make it a bootable drive? I have
> heaps of old SATA drives lying around
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Just write the image to the drive as you would with the usb stick - "dd"
within linux... it will have a partition table and a boot block. The
partition table will not be correct as the disk is in most cases much
bigger as a stick, but it will boot anyway..