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On 6/21/2011 7:47 PM, Chris Brennan wrote:
> * Peter Toth<freebsd@snap.net.nz>  [2011-06-22 12:16:11 +1200]:
>
>> Did you set the "bootfs" property on your root pool? Example: "zpool set
>> bootfs=tank/root tank"
>
> OK, I booted back to the livefs memostick, imported my zpool (tank) and
> zpool promptly tells me the following
>
>      Fixit# zpool set bootfs=tank/root tank
>      cannot set property for 'tank': no such pool or dataset.
>      Fixit
>
> But ... there is! It was a great tip and a worthy try. But it didn't
> work, got any more idea's?
>

Try sending your results of `zpool status`, `zpool get all tank`, and 
`zfs get all tank` and maybe someone can find some quirk.