Over the weekend, I installed opensolaris 2008.11 onto a removable harddisk on
my laptop (having previously removed the zfs bootable snv_103 imaged
harddrive). - side note: opensolaris could do with a companion cd as it takes a
long long time to install the usefull/essential software from the repository
:-( .
Having installed opensolaris 2008.11 I thought I might try to mount the zfs
bootable snv_103 drive and copy all the data over (i.e. in a similar way to
when I moved from ufs to zfs boot, a while back).
I struggled to be able to mount the old disk and as I had to do some 'proper
work' removed the opensolaris 2008.11 harddisk and put back the snv_103
harddisk.
All worked fine, as before.
When I later found some time, I tried to mount the opensolaris 2008.11
harddrive (now in a usb caddy) from the booted snv_103 drive, by entering:
zpool import -f rpool
It complained about stuff being already mounted but sure enough I could still
see the original pool 'rootpool' of snv_103 and the pool 'rpool' of opensolaris
2008.11 image got some sort of mention as well, when I did 'zfs list' and I
could still see my familiar snv_103 home directory.
A reboot soon changed all of that :-(
On booting it comes up with:
.
.
.
Reading ZFS config: done
Mounting ZFS filesystems: (1/6)cannot mount '/' : directory is not enpty
(6/6)
svc:/system/filesystem/local/:default: WARNING: /usr/sbin/zfs mount -a
failed exit status 1
I get a login prompt and can login ok.
Typing 'zpool status' returns
pool: rootpool
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
rootpool ONLINE 0 0 0
c0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
There is no mention of opensolaris pool 'rpool' (attached on usb drive).
'zfs list' gives:
USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
rootpool 78.6G 191G 37k /
rootpool/ROOT 18.7G 191G 18k /ROOT
rootpool/ROOT/zfs_103 3.81G 191G 11.3G /.alt.tmp.b-iR.mnt/
rootpool/ROOT/zfs_104 14.9G 191G 9.34G /
rootpool/dump 3.25G 191G 3.25G -
rootpool/home 50.3G 191G 41.9G /export/home
rootpool/swap 3.43G 191G 105M -
rootpool/u01 2.84G 191G 2.78G /u01
Also swapping the opensolaris 2008.11 harddisk into the laptop drive bay no
longer boots up opensolaris 2008.11 either.
How do I get back to a bootable system e.g. what zfs or
zpool commands will get me out of this hole - before I dig myself in
deeper.
Thanks for your time.
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