Hi Karl,
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 06:17 +0000, Karl Dalen wrote:
> I'm trying to install Opensolaris 2008.05 on my Eee PC 900 but
> I haven't come that far.
I've installed from USB cd drives before, but haven't tried installing
from a USB stick, sorry...
That said, I do boot 2008.05 (well, 2008.11) all the time from an
external USB hard disk when doing pkg image updates on my 701.
[ the internal 4g flash is too small really to hold more than one boot
environment, so I do all the pkg image updating when booted from my 40gb
usb disk, then use zfs send/recv to get the resulting boot environment
onto the internal SSD ]
Sorry this doesn't help much, does it ?
cheers,
timI have created a bootable USB memory
> stick from the 2008.05 CD using the method described in
> http://blogs.sun.com/anilg/date/20080428
>
> When I plug in the USB stick in the EeePC and select
> boot from USB I get the Solaris grub menu where I can
> choose GUI installer or text installer. After that I get a
> lot of messages of type:
>
> WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci1043.82d8 at 1d,7/storage at 2/disk at 0,0 (sd1):
> Command failed to complete...Device is gone
> :
> and then end up with:
> "Requesting System Maintenance Mode
> (See /lib/svc/share/README for more information.)
> Console login service(s) cannot run
> Root password for system maintenance
> "
> Here I end up in a mini root system.
>
> Has anyone successfully booted or installed from USB memory
> stick on the Eee PC ?
> Don't know if this is an Eee PC specific issue or a generic
> problem with installing OpenSolaris from USB.
>
> The ID pci1043.82d8 potentially can be the USB controller for
> the USB stick from which I'm booting. Based on the warning messages
> it looks like the installer is losing contact with the USB drive.
> There were some other messages that I couldn't see when it
> scrolled away quickly. I have tried many times connecting the
> USB memory in different ports with the same results and I have
> a USB keyboard connected as well.
>
> Any suggestions on how to debug this would be appreciated.
>
> /KarlD
>
>
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