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.
