Frank Middleton <f.middle...@apogeect.com> writes: > On 11/29/10 10:48, Calum Mackay wrote: >> On 29/11/10 15:34, Frank Middleton wrote: >>> Just a guess, but shouldn't the mountpoint first be set back to "/" >>> >>> zfs umount newrpool/ROOT/openindiana >>> zfs set mountpoint=/ newrpool/ROOT/openindiana >>> zpool export newrpool >> >> I did not find that to be necessary in my own tests... > > Yes, I guess the bootfs property overrides it, and it's incorrect, anyway: > zfs set mountpoint=legacy > but as you say it doesn't seem to make any difference. As a result I > wonder why importing a bootable root pool doesn't mount its root > automatically. Are there any use cases where the current behavior > is useful? A recursive option like import -r might be handy... > >> Also, note the above would likely render the system unbootable, as it >> would leave the pool named as newrpool (as per previous emails). > > Unless it started out life as newrpool :-). > > That is undoubtedly why the OP had the problem...
hehe... no, that wasn't it. Being OP, I can say that when I first booted from livecd... I ran zpool import but saw something called xpool. I think I may have meddled around a bit before running that. Can't recall for sure now, but it seems mighty suspicious that the information I was working from on my first attempt mentions xpool in it. I'd say its a good bet I blundered around with zpool and managed to rename rpool to xpool in a frenzy of ill-informed flailing. Also the instructions I was working from was not about recuing rpool but other zpools so I imagine the author use xpool as a generic name. I did not exercise the normal cautions since the OS being rescued was a newly installed vbox oi that I had not done much with yet so no great loss was threatened. If I emerge from this experiment with enough info to do a rescue... I'm a happy camper, even if I did go ahead and just reinstall from livecd rather than keep mucking around, I think I could do a rescue now if need be. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss