Hey, sorry for not getting back earlier.

That did it! 

Following the link you provided, booting normally and logging in with root / PW 
on image and entering the lines below:
#zfs set smartdc:factoryreset=yes zones/var
#reboot

I'd be keen to learn how this is technically possible to cause problems, since 
as mentioned the HDD and USB Key had been zeroed. Do you have a link to learn 
more about this? Would guess this is related to "persistent", however I didn't 
realize this survives zeroing...

Anyway, thanks so much for you hints and patience with my noobish questions!

Best regards, Christian

> Am 14.01.2017 um 15:00 schrieb Paul Sture <[email protected]>:
> 
>> On 14 Jan 2017, at 14:44, Peter Kelm wrote:
>> 
>> Christian,
>> 
>> Somehow I recall that zeroing the disk would not suffice. See:
>> https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/SmartOS+Clean+Re-install
> 
> Heh, I'm looking at that same page myself.
> 
>> In particular, import and destroy whatever zone was on that disk before…
>> 
>> You might need to boot with the „noinstall“ boot option by selecting the 
>> corresponding line when GRUB is displayed.
>> 
> 
> From some notes I made back in 2015
> 
> See if there is an existing pool:
> 
> zpool list
> 
> and
> 
> zpool status
> 
> if the pool zones exists:
> 
> zpool import zones
> zpool destroy zones
> 
> and I rebooted at that point.
> 
> With only one disk, SmartOS might not know what to do.  Don't be afraid to go 
> the manual configuration route. Here's what I did manually with two disks:
> 
> zpool create zones mirror c0t0d0 c0t1d0
> 
> Note that since release 20161222T003450Z the disk numbering appears to have 
> changed. What I see now are disks starting at c1t0d0.
> 



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