For what it is worth, I ended up using Linux to dd the Solaris partition from an identical machine.
I realize that ZFS is a huge step forward on a huge number of fronts, but the boot process has got to improve, or else it should not be offered as a root filesystem. Even in the "bad old days" of SunOS 4 20 years ago, you could boot single user and fsck your way out of most problems. In my case, I think the kernel really should have been able to mount the ZFS fs read only, as grub (and linux) were both able to access it. Drew -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
