Hi Carsten, I'm glad you ended up posting this to the list. Very useful info, even if I never end up using it. The rest of this thread has some great content too. Thanks all! On Mar 11, 2018 21:03, "Carsten Mattner via arch-general" < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. >
