On 7/18/2010 3:45 PM, splazo doberman wrote:
I'm running opensolaris 0906 in a triple boot environment with linux and
windows.
I just slapped a new hard drive into my machine and moved everything over with
acronis migrate easy.
Unfortunately, this failed to set up grub correctly so I resorted to the brute
force solution of just reinstalling opensolaris to get things booting again.
However I had underestimated the difficulty of getting my nice lived in install
of opensolaris off of the old drive and onto the new one. (Probably should have
tried a little harder to fix the booting issue, but it's too late for that now).
The main issue is that opensolaris doesn't want to let me mount the old root
file system after I stick it in there as a second hard drive.
I figure that there's probably a fairly simple solution here, but the learning
curve on zfs is a bit on the steep side for all of its alleged ease of use.
Any suggestions?
Most likely, the problem is that both the old and new disks have a pool
named 'rpool'. You thus can't do anything like 'import rpool'.
I'm assuming that you can at least see the old disk's pools via a plain
'import', correct? Have you tried importing via UID rather than via
name - also, try importing with a different mountpoint option.
Last resort - boot from the LiveCD, import the old disks' rpool by UID,
and then rename the whole pool something else (maybe 'oldrpool').
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Erik Trimble
Java System Support
Mailstop: usca22-123
Phone: x17195
Santa Clara, CA
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