Just to wrap this up, I now have a beautiful OI desktop running from
my USB stick. Thanks to everyone who offered their suggestions.
To summarize the solution for me was to change SATA to ATA in the
BIOS, boot from the live cd, install to the USB stick, and always use
it in the same port.
I now
Hi Reg,
Actually this is what I'd done initially, and the problem was that it
appeared to work but then wouldn't boot on subsequent attempts.
However what I'd done was booted from the live USB image (because of
the SATA issue discussed elsewhere, I couldn't even get the live cd to
boot). So I ha
k at boot time. If the disk is not plugged in it's a perfectly
> normal Windows machine. Very helpful if it's a company laptop as there's
> nothing for IT to get upset about.
>
> Have Fun!
> Reg
>
>
>
> --- On Sun, 4/3/11, Andrew Myers wrote:
if it's a company laptop as there's nothing for
IT to get upset about.
Have Fun!
Reg
--- On Sun, 4/3/11, Andrew Myers wrote:
> From: Andrew Myers
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana"
> Date: Sunday, Ap
might try it to see.
Cheers
Guy
--- On Sun, 3/4/11, Andrew Myers wrote:
From: Andrew Myers
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick
To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana"
Date: Sunday, 3 April, 2011, 8:38
Hi Reg,
Thanks for the suggestions. Is there instructions
Hi Reg,
Thanks for the suggestions. Is there instructions anywhere for how to
create the USB boot disk?
Many thanks,
Andrew.
=
Something I forgot to mention.
You're a lot better off booting from a USB disk than setting up dual
boot. Many years ago I got a system to boot S
nging that setting will screw up the OS I already have
> installed?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew.
>
> >
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> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:27:03 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Reginald Beardsley
> > To: Discussion list for OpenInd
Sat, 4/2/11, Andrew Myers wrote:
> From: Andrew Myers
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick
> To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
> Date: Saturday, April 2, 2011, 9:12 PM
> My BIOS settings have the following:
>
> - System Configuration
> |- S
ana
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> Look at the BIOS settings for the disk. In particular you probably want IDE
> rathe
> Look at the BIOS settings for the disk. In particular you probably
> want IDE rather than AHCI/SATA at boot time. After it boots the proper
> driver will get loaded.
I beleive you're slightly (?) out of line, and I really doubt BIOS has such a
setting for the USB drive
Vennlige hilsener / Best
Look at the BIOS settings for the disk. In particular you probably want IDE
rather than AHCI/SATA at boot time. After it boots the proper driver will get
loaded.
--- On Tue, 3/29/11, Andrew Myers wrote:
> From: Andrew Myers
> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick
> To: open
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
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 in
Andrew,
Welcome to Oi!
Yeah, a couple of us were just struggling with getting our old Dells to boot Oi
- in my case, under duress! It can be a pain.
Problem is probably in your grub setup. Check what you've got working in your
USB stick (you only need about 2GB, btw), then transfer that
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
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