On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7:05 AM, O. Hartmann <ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > At the loader prompt, I need to unload the buggy kernel and load the old > working one via > > load /boot/kernel.old/kernel > > Then I load also the ZFS related modules > > load /boot/kernel.old/opensolaris.ko > load /boot/kernel.old/zfs.ko > > Issuing boot at the end of that stage boots the kernel - the old one > -successfully - but there is no working ZFS and no ZFS volume gets > mounted although the rc.conf is executed correctly. > > What am I doing wrong at that point? Why isn't ZFS run and mount properly?
Last time I ran into this problem, the issue was that "unload" also unloaded the zpool.cache file and the ZFS code relied on that to find the kernel. I don't recall what the workaround was. On 2013-Feb-20 08:17:46 -0800, Freddie Cash <fjwc...@gmail.com> wrote: >Sounds like a perfect use case for Boot Environments. Create a new BE, >install the new kernel into it, set it as the default, reboot. If it >fails, you manually set the previous BE as the default, and reboot. That >way, your "known-good", working environment is never affected. How do you change your BE in the loader? Or how do you change your BE when you can't boot? -- Peter Jeremy
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