Or I actually did post it to the list by accident. Please don't flame me for mention ZFS boot environments as a technique available for FOSS servers. On 3/12/18, Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/11/18, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
This was a nightmare. It's not a CD problem, it's a problem with the system seeing the CD Label and/or creating the /dev/disk/by-label directory in time for the link to be created.
Hi David,
so in the end you were able to boot off usb, right?
Also, the nightmare you had to work through can be avoided on servers where you run illumos or FreeBSD by way of ZFS boot environments (BE). Basically, it's like Windows style snapshots of core files you can boot, in case stuff goes south.
I didn't post this to the list, since it mentions ZFS, and that alone might get some people pissed off.