On Aug 13, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Bernd Schemmer wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Hillel Lubman wrote:
>> Is there a way to create a multiboot live USB with OpenSolaris and
>> Linux on it? So far, the method prescribed to create a live USB
>> drive for OpenSolaris overwrites anything that's there. I'd prefer
>> to have one big USB and to choose what to boot, instead of having a
>> separate USB drive for each OS.
>>
> I wrote an article on how to create an USB stick with Linux and
> Solaris (MilaX):
>
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/usbstick_milax_dsl.jsp
if you're going to do ZFS boot - then you'll need to use the
OpenSolaris grub which likes to install in the first primary
partition, and yes overwrite whatever's there .. (note that this is an
older version of grub which won't work with things like ext4)
So if you fdisk/partition the drive first, and then install
OpenSolaris in the first primary partition - i'd recommend using a
second primary partition (also active) and installing linux with it's
own grub there and then just creating a menu entry from the
OpenSolaris grub menu.lst that points to something like:
title Linux (blah blah)
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
(assuming of course that the USB drive comes in as hd0 and your linux
partition is on the second primary partition) .. this then gives you a
little more flexibility on Linux distributions, updates, and
filesystems you might want to use there.
---
.je
