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jesse_so, people to do with boot usb...
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jesse_I just did upgrade of smartos
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jesse_mount the usb, rsync the new platform tar (important), unmount the device, remount it, diff the new files
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jesse_all is fine
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jesse_then rebooting and it failing
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jesse_in the boot/* forth files
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jesse_(not part of the platform update)
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jesse_things needed:
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jesse_instructions to manually booto good-known files with Loader
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jesse_trying to figure out dynamic forth code is not fun
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jesse_all the files needed for a boot in platform tars
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jesse_(if test-case is needed, I can provide a file to rnd(), as forth is not perl)
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jesse_(why? I didn't appreciate the 40min or so of driving past midnight with a car with front-wheell bearing going out)
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neiracjesse_ I thought you just used piadm to update smartos
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jesse_piadm can do usb boot?
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jesse_and verify the non-platform files while doing it?
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jesse_non-platform.tar files
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neiracjesse_ I'm sorry I just read the first paragraphs of PIADM(8) and I think you need to abandon usb booting to use the pool as bootable pool, so you are write for usb need to do it manually
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jesse_...and to use a pool as a bootable pool, you'll need to repartition the drives...=)
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jesse_and because zfs has had excellent removal of disks and shrinking of filesystems since 2006, the migration path is clear!=)
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jesse_(and I still have some legacy hardware that doesn't see all the connected disks in bios...=))
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neiracjesse_ are you running triton or smartos?, triton has all the nice stuff but vanilla smartos is really great.
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jesse_smartos
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neiracjesse_ oh ok, I like that now they added pkgsrc on the gz
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jesse_that doesn't help much when you end up trying to forth-or-Loader (try to google up Loader, it's as easy as 'go' (the language)!) your server up
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jesse_obviously it was not a big problem, I only had dns and mail down...
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