[ug-bosug] Re: Belenix USB installer query

[Anil Gulecha]

On 4/15/07, Alvar García <telestarco at yahoo.es> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've tried to create a LiveUSB following the instructions kindly provided
> by Anil Gulecha, but after completing all the steps without problem (saving
> two minor issues), the USB stick isn't bootable. I was copying from Belenix
> 0.5.1 LiveDVD.
>
> The issues I encountered were:
> - newfs was unable to detect the size of slice 0 (option size 0 didn't
> work), so I entered manually the size for the slice. So far, so good.


Newfs does not require any size as argument.. just the device node. Are you
sure it is ufs formatted?Do as root:

#fstyp <usb device node>

The device node can be obtained from the o/p of 'rmformat'

- cp * from /.cdrom was unable to copy /boot/solaris/bin/root_archive and
> /man, both of which are links.


This is expected.. not a problem.

Then I tried to reboot, but none of my computers is able to boot the stick.
> I will try the whole process again and report my success (or lack
> thereof).


The PC will not automatically boot from the USB, you will have to select it
as the first boot device from the BIOS.

If you have done this, then grub may not be (properly) installed.. thus the
issue. It could also be that the USB is not formatted as ufs.

The other issue I can think of is both the PCs you tried do not support USB
boot (very smal chance, but well..)

Regards
Anil
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