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Subject: Re: ZFS + GPT with root on memory stick and mirrored SATA drives
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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