Re: Hardware UUID discrepancies (dmidecode vs. sysctl) on amd64 multiboot system

2020-11-07 Thread Bruce Lilly
On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 4:30 PM Benjamin Baier wrote: > What are the ramifications of a changed UUID? At the moment, what one gets on OpenBSD depends on whether one uses dmidecode (on systems where OpenBSD dmidecode actually works -- it doesn't on some recent systems, even after making the necess

Hardware UUID discrepancies (dmidecode vs. sysctl) on amd64 multiboot system

2020-11-07 Thread Bruce Lilly
I have a multiboot system with several OSes on the same hardware. Summary: OpenBSD UUID reported by dmidecode and from sysctl differ significantly w.r.t. byte ordering. Multiple OSes report the same dmidecode UUID, and most other OSes provide one or more alternate ways of accessing the UUID which

sysupgrade 6.7->6/8 on UEFI/GPT machine (amd64)

2020-11-07 Thread Bruce Lilly
No serious difficulties, just some notes on unexpected behavior that might bear investigation. There were two concerning messages before reboot, neither logged anywhere that I could find: one was about being unable to write bootblocks and the other was an indication that rebooting might not be pos