[indiana-discuss] Cannot install OpenSolaris snv108 on my SDHC

[Masafumi Ohta]

Hi Fajar

I digged this case.I found my SDHCs were dead it couldn't fsck on my Mac
and it couldn't format on my Windows sometimes.thanks you a lot for  
your advice:-))

And I found my USB stick "Imation Nano"  couldn't mount as storage  
device.
/var/adm/messages didn't say it was mounted as a storage device and  
said "Device gone.."
so I guess it couldn't use as LiveUSB for OpenSolaris installation to  
SDHC running as usb device.

Regards,

-masafumi

On 2009/03/08, at 19:54, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Masafumi Ohta <masafumi.ohta at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>> but zpool status said the error (see attached files)
>
> That zpool status shows that your pool experience checksum errors. It
> MIGHT be that your SD card is bad, or your system is incompatible to
> use SD as boot device.
>
> My experince trying to get SD as boot device on multiple OS has been
> unsucsessfull due to a lot of factors :
> - on my current Acer Aspire One, SD controller is PCI. It has high
> throughput, but not BIOS-bootable. Ouch.
> - on my earlier eepc 2G, SD controller is connected via USB (is it the
> same thing with your 901?). It's bootable, but throughput is dead slow
> (compared to the same card attached to my Aspire One). This means
> Windows is no-no because performance is simply not acceptable.
> - using Linux with squashfs on eepc SD increased the performance
> somewhat to an acceptable level (due to I/O need reduced). I had to
> gave up on that as well though, because after several hours the SD
> card overheated, and Linux shows lots of disk errors that it remounts
> the filesystem read-only.
>
> The same condition (overheat) MIGHT be what's causing zfs checksum
> errors on your setup. If that is the case, then your SD is not
> suitable as boot device for any OS.
>
> Regards,
>
> Fajar