Giuliano Santorelli wrote:
> I've a problem with OpenSolaris installation on a portable device.
> 
> My idea was to clone my disk with OpenSolaris on a portable device
> (USB), and then boot off of the USB disk.
> My first step was to use the command "dd" to clone the system. All was ok.
> Then, I rebooted the system off of the USB disk (throught the BIOS).
> Apparently, "something" was loaded from the USB disk, but the system
> actually booted was that installed on the internal disk.
> Using the following guide:
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/boot_usb_flash.jsp
> I've modified the miniroot of the system specified that the device to
> take was the USB disk (in my case /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0 ). At the reboot the
> system halts when try to mount the root.
> 
> Someone can help me in these situation?
> 

Not really, because it's not a replication method that Solaris is 
designed to support.  Your first problem will be in 
/boot/solaris/bootenv.rc, but there will be many others.  Just install 
to the device, if it's seen as a disk by the system that should work 
just fine.  Or use Live Upgrade to clone it.

Dave

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