> And no difference on 8.3 :( > > Should there have been a "promote" in there somewhere? It looks like > the boot env is still dependent on the very old zroot.
Hi, I have just recreated from scratch Your zroot root setup under VirtualBox and tested it deeply. There was an interesting BUG in the *beadm* utility, or maybe it is a BUG in sh(1), I do not have that good knowledge of POSIX/sh(1) standards. To the point, check these two code snippets, they should do EXACLY the same, logic is the same, the differece is only the syntax. snippet 1: [ ${MOUNT} -eq 0 ] && { zfs set mountpoint=${TMPMNT} ${POOL}/ROOT/${2} zfs mount ${POOL}/ROOT/${2} } || { TMPMNT=${MOUNT} } snippet 2: if [ ${MOUNT} -eq 0 ]; then zfs set mountpoint=${TMPMNT} ${POOL}/ROOT/${2} zfs mount ${POOL}/ROOT/${2} else TMPMNT=${MOUNT} fi But unfortunately, it comes out that its not the same ... [ ${MOUNT} -eq 0 ] && { zfs set mountpoint=${TMPMNT} ${POOL}/ROOT/${2} zfs mount ${POOL}/ROOT/${2} # IF THIS LINE ABOVE FAILS (NOT RETURN 0) THEN # TMPMNT=${MOUNT} BELOW WILL BE EXECUTED } || { TMPMNT=${MOUNT} } The sollution can be put command that will always work (return 0 on exit) like that: [ ${MOUNT} -eq 0 ] && { zfs set mountpoint=${TMPMNT} ${POOL}/ROOT/${2} zfs mount ${POOL}/ROOT/${2} echo 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null } || { TMPMNT=${MOUNT} } ... or to rewrite it under if/then/else which I did for the whole *beadm* utility and I no longer use || and && syntax, anywhere. As for Your problems, this worked for me on this VirtualBox test environment. # zfs promote zroot # zfs rollback zpool@be # zfs set mountpoint=/mnt zroot [ set vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zroot" in /mnt/boot/loader.conf ] # zpool set bootfs=zroot zroot # zfs set mountpoint=none zroot # reboot These above should bring back to the start point before You entered my instructions to try *beadm* and BEs. After reboot ... # zfs destroy -R zroot/ROOT # zfs create -o mountpoint=none zroot/ROOT # zfs send zpool@be | zfs recv zroot/ROOT/be # fetch https://raw.github.com/vermaden/beadm/master/beadm # chmod +x beadm # ./beadm list # ./beadm activate be # reboot Now You should have a working system with boot environments. Both GitHub and SourceForce have the latest fixed *beadm* version. Regards, vermaden -- ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"