[indiana-discuss] Booting from live usb

[Karl Dalen]

> 
> On Jul 18, 2009, at 3:20 AM, Karl Dalen wrote:
> 
> > I copied osol-1002-118-x86.usb to a 4G stick using
> usbcopy from
> >
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/raw/caiman/slim_sour
> ce/usr/src/cmd/install-tools/usbcopy
> > with no errors. I was doing this on a laptop
> running build 111.
> > When I try booting from this USB on a laptop after
> the grub menu I  
> > get a
> > lot of errors about missing devices and end up in
> the maintenance  
> > mode.
> > I cannot do anything. As soon as I type any command
> I always get
> > errors "usr/bin/hostname: Nu such file".
> > Is there any know problems with the
> 1002-118-x86.usb image or am I
> > missing something.
> 
> that's somewhere in the microroot before it lofi
> mounts the compressed  
> volume files and goes from there
> 
> you can make the hostname messages go away by redoing
> the prompt like:
> # export PS1='\u@\h\$ '
> 
> with build 118 - there's a known issue with the FCOE
> SMF missing  
> fcoeconfig - but i think you're hitting device errors
> before that.
> 
> you can try doing a devfsadm to get the device tree
> rebuilt, and going  
> from there (but i think they also stripped out things
> like svcadm and  
> svcs in the microroot - which you'll need to get from
> one of the  
> compressed loopback files) .. remember - these builds
> are still in  
> development at this stage
> 

Thanks for your suggestions. I could not identify whether the "device
not found errors" I got during boot from USB stick were related to the
hardware USB subsystem on my laptop or related to the osol boot image
so I gave up on that and instead burned a CD image and booted from
a USB DVD drive. There where no problems in booting and installing
this build 118 from the live CD. 

/KarlD
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