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Re: [zfs-discuss] Root pool on boot drive lost on another machine becaus

Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Root pool on boot drive lost on another machine because of devids
From: JÃrgen Keil
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:12:22 PDT
> I have a USB flash drive which boots up my
> opensolaris install. What happens is that whenever I
> move to a different machine,
> the root pool is lost because the devids don't match
> with what's in /etc/zfs/zpool.cache and the system
> just can't find the rpool.

See defect 4755 or defect 5484

https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4755
https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5484

When I last experimented with booting Solaris
from flash memory sticks I modified scsa2usb
so that it would construct a devid for the usb
flash memory stick,
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