On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Paul Lyons <paulrly...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know this is opensolaris and Solaris, but I'm stuck... > > I want to demonstrate to my client how to recover an unbootable system from > a zfs snapshot. (Say some dope rm -rf /kernel/drv...) Running Solaris 10 U8 > sparc. > > Normal procedures are boot cdrom -s (or boot net -s) > zpool import rpool > zfs rollback <snapshot> > reboot and all is well > > I've done this before with earlier rev's of Sol 10. > > When I boot off Solaris 10 U8 I get the error that pool is formatted using > an incompatible version. Status show the pool as "Newer Version" > > I know Update 8 has version 15, but it looks like the "miniroot" from the > install media is only version 10. > > This is not good. > > Any advice? I am already thinking about installing U7 on my test box to > demonstrate. Glad I haven't rolled out u8 into production. > > Thanks, > > Paul > Not to be a jerk, but is there a question in there? The system told you exactly what is wrong, and you seem to already know. You're booting from an old cd that has an old version of zfs. Grab a new iso. How would you expect a system that shipped with verison 10 of zfs to know what to do with version 15? --Tim
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