Headless home server - Boot via GPT/EFI UUID
My Headless home server (Seagate Dockstar) doesn't have a standard boot manager. It simply boots a uBoot image, either from it's NAND or from an external HDD. All this is set up in it's BIOS. Unfortunately it doesn't have a iLO/DRAC/SIMC/IPMI so that I can control the BIOS over a network connection. Anyway, this amazingly cheap/"low power" device comes with a crippled OS and I like ArchLinux ARM a lot better. Since ALARM (short for ArchLinux ARM) doesn't fit in the small NAND I have to setup the BIOS to point it to an external USB device. But there's a downside to this. Since the PlugPC has 4 USB ports and since the HDD's don't always take the same amount of time handshaking with the BIOS on boot-up, what happens is that sometimes disk A is sda and disk B is sdb but some other times disk A is sdb and disk B is sda. Rather confusing...for us and for the small server too. And worst of all, when the change happens the device won't boot u...