[indiana-discuss] build 100 image-update: cannot boot to previous BEs

[Sebastien Roy]

On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 10:54 -0500, Sebastien Roy wrote:
> While this seemed to work for an update from 99 to 100, I'm having this
> same problem again, and this time, it's not resolvable with subsequent
> reboots.
> 
> The issue is that I had a 2008.11 BE, and created another BE for
> testing.  I rebooted over to this "test" BE and bfu'ed it with test
> archives.  I can boot this "test" BE just fine, and I'm now done my
> testing.  I now can't boot _any_ of my other BE's that were created
> prior to the "test" BE, including 2008.11.  They all panic as I
> initially described:

This turned out to be due to a "zpool upgrade" done while booted into
the "test" BE, which was a build newer than 103.  The details are in the
zfs thread I started over the weekend:

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2008-December/053751.html

While I did shoot myself in the foot, there seems to be potential for
better interoperability between zpool and beadm.

-Seb