Or I actually did post it to the list by accident. Please don't flame me for mention ZFS boot environments as a technique available for FOSS servers. On 3/12/18, Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 3/11/18, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> This was a nightmare. It's not a CD problem, it's a problem with the >> system >> seeing the CD Label and/or creating the /dev/disk/by-label directory in >> time for the link to be created. > > Hi David, > > so in the end you were able to boot off usb, right? > > Also, the nightmare you had to work through can be avoided on servers > where you run illumos or FreeBSD by way of ZFS boot environments (BE). > Basically, it's like Windows style snapshots of core files you can > boot, in case stuff goes south. > > I didn't post this to the list, since it mentions ZFS, and that alone > might get some people pissed off. >
