> Its is possible to boot from USB as I have booted the
> the older Indiana Preview from USB thanks to
> instrunctions in Dave Miners blog.
Yep.
I have an 8GB USB flash memory stick with ZFS root / boot
(SXCE 91), bfu upgraded to snv_95. This USB flash memory
device is bootable on five different 32- and 64-bit amd64 and Intel
core2 boxes by now, on any USB root hub port ;-)
This started to work after the putback for:
6704717 ZFS mirrored root doesn't live up to expectations
6710937 Boot failed information should be more friendly
These added a new zfs boot feature, that allows the root
device to be opened by "devid", in addition to the attempt
to use a physical device path ...
Using the open by devid, the USB flash memory device can
be found whereever it is connected on the USB bus.
> This is probably not a bug. Solaris is not designed
> to be able to move a system configured for SATA to
> boot via USB.
Ok, switching between SATA and USB still won't work,
because the SATA and USB disk device driver don't
generate compatible devids.
> It would be a request for enhancment in that case.
Hmm, I think what is missing is a feature to locate the
zpool's disks using the "guid" of the disks.
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