bectl: cannot promote 'zroot/ROOT/r364030-OpenZFS2': not a cloned filesystem

[Graham Perrin]

On 30/08/2020 20:37, marco wrote:
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> However the boot fails dropping me to the mountroot prompt.
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> Luckily activating r364030-OpenZFS again is not a problem and the system will happily boot from that again after attempting to boot from r364030-OpenZFS2.
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> So now I have only 1 working BE and it feels a bit tricky to try an upgrade in place.
> What's the best advice here?
> I could switch back to base ZFS in this active BE, see if the system will be able to import zroot and mount all my datasets and boot, then try to create another BE using base ZFS and then attempt to update.
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FYI <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239702>

 >> sysutils/openzfs bectl activate … cannot promote … not a cloned 
filesystem … did not successfully activate boot environment