Q:

Trouble in making pen drive bootable for solaris 11.2

I am trying to dual boot my system with Windows 8.1 and solaris 11.2.I am using flash drive for making bootable solaris 11.2..But i am not able to create bootable flash drive.
I tried both .usb and .iso files but none of them worked.I tried UNetBootin for .iso image but the flash drive did not became bootable then i tried .usbfile as instructed here..it was written that the image is written successfully but there was no decrease in size of pen drive and it also dis not became bootable..
How can I use any any of these files (.usb and .iso) to create a bootable pen drive??

A:

Use dd command to make it bootable
dd if=<Solaris iso file.iso> of=/dev/sdb

Make sure you select as destination the device corresponding to the USB key (/dev/sdb in the above example) and not a partition (such as /dev/sdb1)
For example, this link refers how to make it bootable for centos
For solaris, refer this link, to create USB flash drive

