James, Nothing is wrong, this is just for the fun :-)
Seb --- Sébastien Stormacq Senior Software Architect GSS Software Practice, Sun Microsystems Luxembourg On 12 Nov 2008, at 01:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just out of interest - whats up with booting from the CD/DVD on the > MacBook Pro - I have managed that a couple of times with an original > 2008.05 disk. I am using rEFIt (http://refit.sourceforge.net/) as a > bootloader on my Mac - I'll have a go with my USB stick tonight and > see what happens. > > -James > > Sébastien Stormacq wrote: >> I finally managed to create the USB stick image but not to boot >> from it. >> I don't think OpenSolaris is responsible of this however >> >> I am using OpenSolaris inside virtual machines on my MacBook Pro. >> Firstly : I was not able to transfer the image to the USB stick from >> VirtualBox. I had to install an image on Fusion to be able to use >> usbcopy script. >> Secondly : The MacBook Pro does not recognize the stick as "bootable" >> at boot time (I ensured the partition table is GUID ...) and I did >> not >> manage to configure VB or Fusion to start from a USB stick >> neither ... >> >> So I am blocked - but this is out of topic for this mailing list >> >> >> Seb >> --- >> Sébastien Stormacq >> Senior Software Architect >> GSS Software Practice, >> Sun Microsystems Luxembourg >> >> On 11 Nov 2008, at 07:02, Glenn Lagasse wrote: >> >>> * S?bastien Stormacq ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I've noticed we are distributing binaries like os200811-global.usb >>>> I guess this is to be installed on USB memory stick to boot from >>>> there >>>> Any wiki, web site with instruction on how to install the beast ? >>> http://blogs.sun.com/clayb/entry/creating_opensolaris_usb_sticks_is >>> >>> Step 4 is what you're looking for. You can't just dd the image to a >>> usb >>> stick. >>> >>> You *must* do this on either OpenSolaris or SXCE currently. >>> Contributions to make this work on other platforms are greatfully >>> accepted. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> -- >>> Glenn >>> _______________________________________________ >>> indiana-discuss mailing list >>> indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> indiana-discuss mailing list >> indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
