Re: [zfs-discuss] GRUB + zpool version mismatches

2007-10-18 Thread Lori Alt
I think this is an artifact of a manual setup. Ordinarily, if booting from a zfs root pool, grub wouldn't even be able to read the menu.lst if it couldn't interpret the pool format. I'm not sure what the entire sequence of events is here, so I'm not sure if there's a bug. Perhaps you could

Re: [zfs-discuss] GRUB + zpool version mismatches

2007-10-18 Thread Jason King
Upon further thought, it was probably just defaulting to the first thing grub could boot -- my laptop is partitioned (in order) xp, recovery partition, solaris. The grub menu though lists the options in order of solaris b62 (zfs /), solaris b74 (also zfs /), recovery partition, windows. So my

[zfs-discuss] GRUB + zpool version mismatches

2007-10-17 Thread Jason King
Apparently with zfs boot, if the zpool is a version grub doesn't recognize, it merely ignores any zfs entries in menu.lst, and apparently instead boots the first entry it thinks it can boot. I ran into this myself due to some boneheaded mistakes while doing a very manual zfs / install at the