On Tuesday 04 July 2017 20:34:56 Stefan Wollny wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> Sorry if this may sound like a rather stupid question:
> (Referencing the examples section of man installboot(8))
>
> Can s.o. verifiy that instead of
> # installboot sd0
>
> it is equally safe to issue
> # installboot <DUID>
> (the DUID itself, of course)?
>
> My system is fully encrypted with sd1 usually being the (unencrypted)
> boot disk - but if external USB disks are attached that number seems not
> to be quaranteed.
As long as sd0 is not a softraid volume, it is perfectly fine (and in fact,
likely preferable) to use the DUID instead of the device name. However, in the
case of a softraid volume you currently need to use the device name.
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