hi

is it possible to boot oi/illumos using only pool guid?

i installed oi on a sata ssd drive (crucial), then plugged it into usb-sata adapter, tried to boot, but it failed

then i booted from live usb, did zpool import -f, then tried to boot, it failed again

with the same message as in illumos.org/issues/7119#note-5 both times

→ BUG 7119: boot should handle change in physical path to ZFS root devices (Closed)

although the device path did change after import, and it looks more or less correct

i suspect this usb adapter complicates things, bc i took it from another drive and pc shows any drive attached to this adapter as from original vendor (seagate)

and if i install oi using this usb, then system doesn't boot with same error

There was a problem with booting off USB, in that the USB bus is reset during boot making devices attached to it temporarily inaccessible, which is unfortunate if it's your boot device

I don't recall that one getting fixed (nor can I find a bugid right now)

is it specific to os or to pc? i tried it both on desktop pc and on a laptop with the same result

s/boot device/root device/

illumos.org/issues/15270 -- is that the bug?

→ BUG 15270: Boot from USB 3.0 HD stops in usb_pipe_xopen with notice "driver scsa2usb attempting to open non-default of a USB 3.0 ..." (New) | code.illumos.org/c/illumos-gate/+/2730

While not the bug directly, the later comments on it are about the device becoming inaccessible during boot, which is probably what I remember

i'm not sure if i hit this bug, but i don't see NOTICE message from the bug description

/3