Turns out that my naive conclusion was wrong. This morning I installed os08.05 into a 4GB flash stick plugged to an HP 6700 notebook (Intel C2D, bought this week). This machine boots and runs very nicely from this os08.05 flash stick.
However, I was unable to use this flash stick to boot an Athlon X2 machine. Its MBR was read--i.e., the GRUB options were shown on the screen. But when I selected an option (e.g., the rc3) during the second stage of the boot process, the machine would go into the restart mode, and the GRUB screen would be shown again. This process can be repeated again and again. It seems that the bootloader was not able to read the kernel from the flash stick, exactly as what I experienced with the WD Passport (portable USB HD). Also I noticed that with the Athlon X2 machine (which is about two years old), the os08.05-installed flash stick was NOT treated as a removable disc. Instead, I had to move its boot priority up in the __hard drive__ category in order for it to be recognized by the POST process. This contrasts with the C2D notebook, which recognizes the flash stick as a removable medium. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
