You can mount with duid in fstab but I can't find a way to change root
device to a duid in the boot manual. You must use a device found in
/dev/

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=boot&sektion=8&arch=i386&apropos=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current

// Johan

2011/10/9 Jiri B <[email protected]>:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to boot via `bsd -a' and then asked for root device
> I wrote DUID of accessible disk but no success.
>
> root device (default sd0a): fba123e4bd29707a.a
> use one of: exit em0 iwn0 sd0[a-p] cd0[a-p] sd1[a-p] sd2[a-p]
>
> I still do not understand meaning of this commit, sorry
> I don't know C so I cannot get glue from reading the source.
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/kern/subr_disk.c#rev1.120
>
> Another question: 'use one of ...' - em0, iwn0 ??? What this should
> do if I would put a network card here? Or is this a "bug"?
>
> If anybody would make booting working with DUID I will send you
> a box of (in my option) the best Czech beer - Poutnik :-)
>
> http://www.pivovarpoutnik.cz/en/produkty.php
>
> jirib

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