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After installing updates on SLES/OES servers we have had issues where the server doesn't boot. The console comes to:
"No root device found; exiting to /bin/sh
sh: "

This is because the kernel was upgraded and a new initrd was created but it was not created with EVMS support (for some reason, not sure why, wonder when Novell/SUSE is going to fix this??).

This article explains how we worked around that.

Domnic Mendez explains how to create a Linux bootable USB Drive using UNetbootin.

Shruthy Devendra and Sulabh Sharma share a solution on how to overcome the duplicate address assignment problem in PXE boot workstations.

Eliminate complaints about slow Boot up. And don't waste power leaving PCs on all night. Anticipate the users' arrival and use WOL to be ready for them, leveraging existing hardware.

There she goes again...scanning and assigning SAN attached storage as my first devices causing my mounting to "hork" and my partitions to be wrongly assigned....Will it ever end?

Have a piece of hardware that is being cantankerous? Have a need to ignore some hardware at boot for operational concerns? No worries...this little known boot option can help!