On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 09:45 -0600, Evan Layton wrote: > No that doesn't appear like an EFI label. So it appears that ZFS > is seeing something there that it's interpreting as an EFI label. > Then the command to set the bootfs property is failing due to that. > > To restate the problem the BE can't be activated because we can't set > the bootfs property of the root pool and even the ZFS command to set > it fails with "property 'bootfs' not supported on EFI labeled devices" > > for example the following command: > # zfs set bootfs=rpool/ROOT/opensolaris rpool > > fails with that same error message.
I guess you mean zpool, but yes: # zpool set bootfs=rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-138 rpool cannot set property for 'rpool': property 'bootfs' not supported on EFI labeled devices > > Do you have any of the older BEs like build 134 that you can boot back > to and see if those will allow you to set the bootfs property on the > root pool? It's just really strange that out of nowhere it started > thinking that the device is EFI labeled. I have a couple of BEs I could boot to: $ beadm list BE Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created -- ------ ---------- ----- ------ ------- opensolaris - - 1.00G static 2009-10-01 08:00 opensolaris-124 - - 20.95M static 2009-10-03 13:30 opensolaris-125 - - 30.00M static 2009-10-17 15:18 opensolaris-126 - - 25.33M static 2009-10-29 20:18 opensolaris-127 - - 1.37G static 2009-11-14 13:20 opensolaris-128 - - 1.91G static 2009-12-04 14:28 opensolaris-129 - - 22.49M static 2009-12-12 11:31 opensolaris-130 - - 21.64M static 2009-12-26 19:46 opensolaris-131 - - 24.72M static 2010-01-22 22:51 opensolaris-132 - - 57.32M static 2010-02-09 23:05 opensolaris-133 - - 1.07G static 2010-02-20 12:55 opensolaris-134 N / 43.17G static 2010-03-08 21:58 opensolaris-138 R - 1.81G static 2010-05-04 12:03 I will try on 132 or 133. Get back to you later. -- Christian _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss