Root on ZFS, LiveCD and BE

[krad]

If you are really that worried about the pool in question and potential
damage I would do an image of the drive(s) before doing anything. Than you
can restore if anything does go horribly wrong.

I'm suprised nobody has mentioned this.

On 22 August 2016 at 16:04, Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote:

> Brandon J. Wandersee wrote:
> >
> > > I'll check with the stable version of beadm  in bhyve tomorrow, but
> > > please note that BE selection made by beadm-devel itself (from a
> > > working system) works perfectly. It's only the loader BE selection
> > > menu that has this problem.
>
> I have just verified, the boot menu problem is the same no matter if
> beadm of beadm-devel were used for BE creation.
>
> >
> > I just set up boot environments for the first time with sysutils/beadm
> > last week myself, so this seemed like as good a time as any to create
> > one and try it out. I get the same behavior: activating a boot
> > environment from a running system and rebooting works fine, but
> > selecting a boot environment from the boot menu fails. So it's probably
> > a problem with the loader. I'll comment on the bug report myself
> > shortly.
>
> Thank you for your comment on the bug report.
>
> What makes me suspicious is the fact that the menu shows
> zfs:zroot/ROOT/test1 as the Active BE but the bootfs is still
> zfs:zroot/ROOT/default:
>
>                                             s` `.....---.......--.```   -/
>  +============Welcome to FreeBSD===========+ +o   .--`         /y:`      +.
>  |                                         |  yo`:.            :o      `+-
>  |  1. Active: zfs:zroot/ROOT/test1        |   y/               -/`   -o/
>  |  2. bootfs: zfs:zroot/ROOT/default      |  .-                  ::/sy+:.
>  |  3. [P]age: 1 of 1                      |  /                     `--  /
>  |                                         | `:                          :`
>  |  Boot Environments:                     | `:                          :`
>  |  4. test1                               |  /                          /
>  |  5. default                             |  .-                        -.
>  |                                         |   --                      -.
>  |                                         |    `:`                  `:`
>  |                                         |      .--             `--.
>  |                                         |         .---.....----.
>  +=========================================+
>
> Is it supposed to be so?
>
> --
> Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
> sip:sudakov at sibptus.tomsk.ru
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