" diskinfo | awk 'NR == 1 || /^USB/ { print }' " from wiki.smartos.org/remotely-upgrading-a-usb-key-based-deployment does not actually gives any disk info...

issuing ' diskinfo ' itself does

yet without SmartOS boot USB flash on the list.

Unless USB key popped out , physically ;P

On the one machine I have a USB stick in, it's SCSI

SCSI c1t0d0 SanDisk Cruzer Fit 7.45 GiB yes no

yes, I have 2 USB sticks on that machine and onw is showing as SCSI (one I plugged in for Intel AMT/firmware upgrade) and SmartOS boot that doesn't shows up, so I suppose it is plugged out.

Btw would love to recollect, how to distinguish if SmartOS is booted from the loader on the zones pool/hard drive or booted from USB flash

I just checked on the other machine/smartos install. Definatevly, diskifno not displaying USB flash drive info at all . And it is definitively bootying form USB flash, since uname -a shows SmartOS image active as older then available on piadm from HDD, so booted from USB flash

diskinfo is missing the USB flash boot device on one of my systems too and I just checked that it was plugged in, another 2 show it fine but they're a different hardware and flash type, all running joyent_20240711T031348Z

dbrooke: have you tried unplugging and plugging-in-again? There's a bug where some usb drives don't show up if they have been plugged in from the system start

yes, I did replug it and still not showing

hm, no idea then - sorry

I only checked out of curiosity because of the previous mention and this is the first time I've noticed it missing

there's nothing for it in /dev/dsk/ so the diskinfo command is probably fine in itself