From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 4 05:26:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D4AE1065692 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 05:26:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from merlyn@stonehenge.com) Received: from blue.stonehenge.com (cl-52.chi-02.us.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:4978:f:33::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 014F38FC14 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 05:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by blue.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 49F171DE33C; Sun, 3 Jan 2010 21:26:05 -0800 (PST) To: krad References: <863a2n3yst.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <4B40E3B9.4020505@otenet.gr> <86y6kf2ful.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <4B40E9EA.1090204@otenet.gr> <86tyv32ek6.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <86k4vy3ja8.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.16.17.17; tzolkin = 13 Caban; haab = 15 Kankin Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:26:05 -0800 In-Reply-To: <86k4vy3ja8.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (Randal L. Schwartz's message of "Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:39:27 -0800") Message-ID: <86y6ke1lw2.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Manolis Kiagias , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't get "ZFS on GPT Root" to work. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:26:06 -0000 >>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: >>>>> "krad" == krad writes: krad> make sure you dont export the pool after you have copied the zpool cache krad> onto the zfs root fs, as that will break everything. Randal> Hmm. But doesn't executing a shutdown automatically export everythign? Randal> if not, how is there ever a clean shutdown? :) But in fact, that was the problem. Once I followed *exactly* the instructions on the page, not trying to "tidy up before reboot", it works just fine. Thanks everyone for your help. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion