On 8/13/21 11:13 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: > On 13/08/2021 11:34 pm, Stephan Althaus wrote: >> >> Hi Carl! >> >> Assuming still that it is a USB problem...(?) >> If you have a spare SATA drive, you could write the USB image to that >> drive and use that to boot - to circumvent all the USB stuff. >> >> i think i did that once some years ago. > > > Interesting - how would I do that to make it a bootable drive? I have > heaps of old SATA drives lying around > > > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Just write the image to the drive as you would with the usb stick - "dd" within linux... it will have a partition table and a boot block. The partition table will not be correct as the disk is in most cases much bigger as a stick, but it will boot anyway.. _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
