I've Installed OS on an external USB hard drive and managed to boot to it, so I'm guessing that it should be possible with a USB stick ... was a long time ago though, and I did do it by accident (external disk plugged in, internal disk removed from chassis of a laptop) ...
Grub should cope if it's using ZFS (findroot command is genius!) On 30 March 2011 17:00, Dave Miner <dmi...@opensolaris.org> wrote: > On 03/29/11 08:43 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: >> >> In *theory* it can be done. Go look at the OpenSolaris Caiman package. >> It has a utility for that, usbgen. I've not gotten it to work, but I gave >> up fairly quickly as at that point I'd invested almost 3 weeks trying to >> find a way to clone S10 installs w/ a ZFS root. >> >> I'm highly *not* happy, but I thought I'd lick my wounds for a while >> before I tried again. >> > > usbgen is used to generate the USB stick images from ISO's, which doesn't > seem to be the question here. > > In general, installing to USB drives will work. However, booting from USB > drives will usually require that they be inserted into the same USB slot > every time. It's unclear whether that was the case here. > > Dave > >> --- On Tue, 3/29/11, Andrew Myers<am2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> From: Andrew Myers<am2...@gmail.com> >>> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick >>> To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org >>> Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 7:22 PM >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a dell latitude E6400 laptop on which unfortunately >>> I cannot >>> seem to get OI working, unless I boot it from a USB stick >>> (the Live CD >>> will not boot). I have a feeling this has something >>> to do with the >>> hard drive controller, but I am not really enough of a tech >>> head to >>> figure it out. >>> >>> So I had the idea that I could boot via the USB, and then >>> use a >>> another 64Gb stick and install OI on there. I thought >>> that worked, >>> because I ran the installer and it seemed to complete >>> successfully. >>> It rebooted from the 64G and I was able to use OI. >>> However after >>> shutting down that session, I cannot reboot again from the >>> 64G USB >>> stick. It gets to the "Splash Screen" but just >>> reboots shortly after. >>> >>> In theory is what I'm doing (ie. install to USB rather than >>> a HDD) >>> going to work? And if so, is there any way I can try >>> and debug why it >>> fails on subsequent reboots? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Andrew. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >>> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >>> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
