The installer on the optical media was also running the 32-bit kernel, and it seems (Of cause that only works when your keyboard isn't an USB 1.x device) Kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot -B disable-uhci=true,disable-ohci=true (without ohci, uhci), change the grub boot command line to Port somehow fails the SCSI INQUIRY command that has already been sent to the USBĢ.0 device? You could try to boot the Solaris kernel without USB 1.x host adapterĭrivers, and see if that makes a difference. Your USB HDD is a USB 2.0 device? Maybe probing for USB 1.x devices on the same So I guess there's something special happening with the USB drivers at boot time,Īnd that breaks the first command sent to the USB HDD? OTOH, when the system was booted from the optical installation media, you installed to Root pathHmm, it seems that the first SCSI command (a SCSI INQUIRY) sent to the USB HDD Panic/thread=fffffffffbc217c0: cannot mount (scsa2usb0): INQUIRY failed, cannot determine device (Surely would be a lot less work than my way.Ould read the error message that as Juergn supposed I’ve ripped the image in linux with dd, and we’ll be testing it to see if it’s portable that way. I have now tested it by booting from it on an eeePC 1000HA and it worked great. I unmounted the USB device, and then installed the new-ish Sun “dist build” tools: `pkg install SUNWdistro-const`Īnd then ran the newly-installed ‘usbcopy’ tool: `/usr/bin/usbcopy b`Īnd, about 20 minutes later, it was done! I then shortcutted one of the steps in this article about building distros on USB sticks by downloading a canned image from : Specifically Then I rebooted into the new OS (and it looks shiny!) which this time detected the windows-formatted partition on my USB disk, a convenient improvement. This took a LONG TIME in VirtualBox (running on a pretty new MacBook Pro even) and my whole machine wasn’t all that usable during the process, but hey. $ pfexec pkg install pfexec pkg install pfexec pkg install SUNWinstall-libs I found good instructions on the OpenSolaris site: Basically, $ BUILD=`uname -v | sed -e 's/snv_//' -e 's///'` I’m not sure if I needed to upgrade 2008.05 to 2008.11, but I figured I’d do it while I was at it.

That way, from a linux server I could (as far as I know) write the image out and be done.įirst problem, I needed a Solaris system to create the USB image from.įor this I figured I could use Virtualbox, which I upgraded before starting.

What I would have loved would be a ‘dd’able image. Getting an OpenSolaris bootable USB drive

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