Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:19:47 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Carl Chave <carl@chave.us> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS + GPT with root on memory stick and mirrored SATA drives Message-ID: <AANLkTi=t8PEa4wy=GB9HOyss2GX-=ST3U91jVrTz1RsX@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikSjidOwHGSJ1U7P%2Ba7ycJeuDrxfoMBN8V4BJt3@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=veX-%2BS5sPXJXAHzcgTOBqsg-m8sf23LO%2B9b3_@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikcMscZHaC7DDR5PsZrUG4JtPtjwmkSd=MySfOi@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimd5rSnEn61SgMcBShjnhqGVoGkxfAOqKCtwtiy@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikSjidOwHGSJ1U7P%2Ba7ycJeuDrxfoMBN8V4BJt3@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11 January 2011 09:09, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 10 January 2011 21:46, Carl Chave <carl@chave.us> wrote: > >> <snip> >> > echo -en "\n\nNow run these two commands to make the changes live, and >> > reboot >> > zfs set mountpoint=legacy $zpool/be/$nroot >> > zpool set bootfs=$zpool/be/$nroot $zpool\n\n" >> >> Thanks for the input krad. It would be nice to easily switch back and >> forth but aren't you still stuck if everything blows up on that first >> reboot? In order to switch back to the known working dataset you've >> got to get to a fixit prompt to set the correct bootfs property right? >> > > > unfortunatly at the moment yes, but all you have to do is reset the bootfs > property. It would be nice id you could do something from within the boot > loader similar to variables you can pass in grub with opensolaris > having said that as long as the loader works you should be able to reset the rootfs variable
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