Can't find zpool in Fixit environment

sim

sim

Hi

I need to export a root zpool (zroot). Obviously I can't do this whilst the system is running so I've booted into a USB pen Fixit environment and loaded the zfs kernel modules. Trouble is, I can't see my pool:

Code: 
Fixit# zpool list
no pools available
Fixit# zpool export zroot
cannot open 'zroot': no such pool

This isn't entirely surprising I suppose, presumably I need to tell it where to find the pool. Problem is I can't find any description of how to do this. (Access to the web is somewhat compromised with my main system being down, which isn't helping!)

(system is 8.1 stable)

Any ideas? :(

sim
 
Code: 
 # kldstat
Id Refs Address            Size     Name
 1   27 0xffffffff80100000 867d78   kernel
 2    1 0xffffffff80968000 18fa90   zfs.ko
 3    2 0xffffffff80af8000 3868     opensolaris.ko
Did you load zfs.ko and opensolaris.ko?
 
Erratus said:
Code: 
 # kldstat
Id Refs Address            Size     Name
 1   27 0xffffffff80100000 867d78   kernel
 2    1 0xffffffff80968000 18fa90   zfs.ko
 3    2 0xffffffff80af8000 3868     opensolaris.ko
Did you load zfs.ko and opensolaris.ko?
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Yes I did that. (I don't think the zfs/zpool commands would work at all otherwise).

sim
 
You can only export pools that are in use. If you boot to a fixit shell, you have not enabled ZFS nor imported the pool. Thus, there's nothing to export, as the error output shows.

You can import the pool, though, using # zpool import <poolname>. And you can get a list of importable pools using # zpool import.
 
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