On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Miles Nordin <car...@ivy.net> wrote: > root pool. It's only used for finding other pools. ISTR the root > pool is found through devid's that grub reads from the label on the > BIOS device it picks, and then passes to the kernel. note that
Ok, that makes more sense with what I've experienced. The devid for a USB device must change as it moves from port to port. When moving a USB stick I built on one system to another, I had to run bootadm update-archive from the LiveCD. > I think you'll find you CAN move drives among sata ports, just not > among controller types, because the devid is a blob generated by the The testing that I did with moving the sata port may have been across controllers. > devid-proof rescue boot option? Is there a way to make grub boot an > iso image off the hard disk for example? It's probably possible to use the LiveCD / LiveUSB with a custom grub menu item. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
