> I did an install ... of 2009.06 to an > 8GB USB thumb drive. It works great on the system I installed it on, > however, I've tried it on two other computers and it doesn't work on > either. It hangs on both systems right after GRUB. On one of the > systems, it reboots by itself after a short while, on the other one it > just hangs. I've tried hitting escape to bypass the splash screen but > am unable to.
Try to boot with verbose kernel messages and the kernel debugger enabled and disable the boot graphics: - Edit the grub boot commands (type 'e' twice), - delete the splashimage, foreground and background lines - delete the ",console=graphics" part from the -B option from the kernel$ line - append options " -kv" at the end of the kernel$ line - 'b' boots the modified entry Where does it hang? Or does it panic? > 1. Should I expect that an install to a USB drive can be moved between > computers? Is it sufficiently portable that it doesn't care which > computer I boot it from and I'm just having a run of bad luck? Does > OpenSolaris install all of the drivers, or just the drivers for the > install-system? Nope, this doesn't work in the general case. The problems start with most USB sticks identifying as removable media devices, and for such a removable media device solaris doesn't use unique per-device "devids". Without "devid" the disk can't be automatically found by zfs when it has moved to a different physical location. http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4755 http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6819531 http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6779374 There's no such "devid" problem when using an usb 2.0 hdd (a hdd should identiy fas fixed media device, and has the "devid") Bug 4755 contains a patch for the scsa2usb module to work around this problem. IIRC, you have to boot the stick once on each system by specifying the correct physical boot path; subsequent boots on each system should work without specifying the physical boot path; the stick is found by it's unique "devid" and the help of the /etc/devices/devid_cache file. There also is the following open bug: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6795637 > 2. Is there something I can change in one of the GRUB lines to stop > the display of the splash screen and/or print out additional > information on the console that would give me a clue > why this is happening? See above -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
