[flashboot] USB stick problem to solve

rancor therancor at gmail.com
Mon Oct 3 07:23:09 EST 2011


2011/10/2 Jussi Peltola <pelzi at pelzi.net>:
>> The issue can be found here: https://github.com/openbsd/flashboot/issues/9
>>
>> It's about booting Flashboot on a USB stick with a computer with a
>> SSD. Flashboot assumes that the USB stick has device sd0 but that
>> device is in fact the ssd drive.
>
> echo boot sd1a:bsd >> /etc/boot.conf
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Thanks, but that does not solve the problem. I want the image to be
bootable on different hardware, not only this specific one.

I solved it by mounting /flash with duid instead of the device to make
it work independent of how many sd devices the hardware got.

This commit closes this issue:
https://github.com/openbsd/flashboot/commit/2882a54c799aabf5282204ce2e9285e8d87e4f7e

Best regards Johan


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