I have been trying to get EON to boot from a USB drive. I can boot from the CD, run EON, run the install.sh script and have it announce things are OK. On reboot the BIOS immediately hangs or if I let it go and check though all of my disks then plug in the USB thumb drive it immediately locks up the machine. I thought my keyboard was broken so I used a PS2 one :-)
I have fiddled with the BIOS settings, used AHCI, IDE, etc to no effect. I get the same behaviour from the Belenix distro. Puppy Linux boots fine and runs from RAM with exactly the same machine so I'm asking what is it about the Solaris-formatted USB stick that kills the Gigabyte BIOS? The USB stick looks fine from Solaris as I have installed and run Solaris 10/OpenSolaris/EON on the same machine. I have tried SanDisk Cruzer (16GB), Lacie iamakey (8GB), Lexar Firefly (4GB) with the same results. If I format them all FAT32 they appear as USB-HDD to the BIOS. The machine has a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P running the F8 BIOS, 2GB RAM (was 6GB), an Core i7 920 running stock 2.66GHz, 9800GT graphics, Firewire 800 card, LG Blu-ray/DVD RW/CDRW drive. Is the only solution to use an IDE flash disc? Thanks -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
