[OpenIndiana-discuss] usb key installer

[Toomas Soome]

> On 8. Apr 2022, at 15:34, Gabriele Bulfon <gbulfon at sonicle.com> wrote:
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> I will doublecheck this, but I discovered that burning the usb key through an illumos phyisical machine with this command:
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> /usr/bin/dd if=./XStream-Storage-Chandra-Install-February-2022.usb of=/dev/rdsk/c14t0d0p0 bs=4194304
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> it works great.
> I just don't understand why it never works by making it from windows machines.

I guess, that may get revealed with those diagnostics commands. The first question would be, is there any sort of “virus” protection, preventing writes to MBR?

rgds,
toomas

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> Gabriele
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> Da: Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com>
> A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Cc: Gabriele Bulfon <gbulfon at sonicle.com>
> Data: 8 aprile 2022 12.16.38 CEST
> Oggetto: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] usb key installer
> 
> connect stick to illumos host
> echo | format -e, see which device is your stick
> 
> mdb /dev/rdsk/devicenamep0  — note the p0 at the ned of the name
> ::load disk_label
> ::mbr
> 
> what does ::mbr output?
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> fstyp /dev/rdsk/disknames1 — note s1 at the end of the name, it should be your illumos slice (with ufs)
> installboot -i /dev/rdsk/disknames1 — note s1 at the end of the name, it should be your illumos slice (with ufs)
> 
> rgds,
> toomas
> 
> > On 8. Apr 2022, at 12:59, Gabriele Bulfon via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, I tried using the OI 2021 usb installer with the suggested Win32DiskImage, but the usb stick stops with "Can't find boot loader".
> > It used to work in the past with older releases.
> > Same is happening to us with our XStreamOS distro, since 2021 usb files. Any 2018 usb file works fine with same key and same software.
> >  
> > Anyone had this problem?
> > Any clue?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Gabriele
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