unable to boot ZFS with gptzfsboot from an exported zpool

[Mark Powell]

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Mark Powell wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Philipp Wuensche wrote:
>
>> So it is wanted not to boot from an exported zpool? Why is that so?
>
> I'm not sure 'why'.

Perhaps, something to do with why the -f flag exists to zpool import.
   Actually, this is one of the reasons why I may well just stick with UFS 
for root. I was hit by this problem a few times whilst experimenting with 
zfsroot. I don't want to ever pull out that DVD again! :)
   Cheers.

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