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

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

2020-11-07 Thread Benjamin Baier
On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 12:36:42 -0500 Bruce Lilly wrote: > 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 OS

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