XigmaNAS

I have a few questions about ZFS and booting.
Is there a way to boot nas4free so it will skip loading the zfs pools?
If a zfs pool is not mounted or imported will 'zfs set mountpoint=/mnt pool/dataset' work? If not is there a way to change the mountpoint without importing the pool?
I could if there is no other option destroy the dataset, that one didn't have much on it of importance, so another question is can a dataset be destroyed before it's imported?

I imported a pool that I had previously on OS X. The mountpoint was set to /Volumes I wanted it to be on /mnt
the GUI wouldn't import the pool so I SSH'd in and and I changed the mountpoint from the command line. Everything stopped working on next reboot. Looking thru my terminal scroll back I see what stupid mistake I made. I did 'zfs set mountpoint=/ pool/dataset' so I'm guessing it mounted as root, which means no /bin /sbin no /*anything*... the machine doesn't boot all the way, it spits out an error that it is not able to find /etc/rc.d

You could try a clean installation and afterwards import your pool(s)

That won't work, as soon as it is imported all commands go away. Which is why I need to know how to boot so zfs doesn't load and I guess I'm gonna have to destroy that dataset in the pool. Not sure if you can destroy a dataset with it not imported.

Do NOT destroy (not yet anyways) this sounds recoverable.

The install disks do not automatically import the zpool so you should be able to boot.

Then
Reboot

The Recovery mount point name can be anything you want

PS. make sure mount in a directory below /mnt not the /mnt directory itself, thats just asking for trouble

Thank you

I read up on that in the oracle docs as well as setting an altroot.
booted to the install USB stick and it worked.
Got it fixed, thank you.

My pleasure