I tried to do a zfs root via flash install which was not sucessful later i did a normal flash installation on my sparc system , but now zpool import shows following status zpool import pool: rootpool id: 1557419723465062977 state: UNAVAIL status: The pool is formatted using an incompatible version. action: The pool cannot be imported. Access the pool on a system running newer software, or recreate the pool from backup. see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-A5 config: rootpool UNAVAIL newer version c0t1d0s2 ONLINE pool: rpool id: 5084939592711816445 state: FAULTED status: The pool metadata is corrupted. action: The pool cannot be imported due to damaged devices or data. The pool may be active on another system, but can be imported using the ''-f'' flag. see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-72 config: rpool FAULTED corrupted data c0t0d0s2 ONLINE I tried removing zpool cache and rebooted and still its shows 2 unavailable pools for import ... #ls -l /etc/zfs/ total 0 # I ''m on UFS based slices .. df -h Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 52G 6.0G 45G 12% / /devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab swap 29G 1.2M 29G 1% /etc/svc/volatile objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object sharefs 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/dfs/sharetab fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd swap 512M 0K 512M 0% /tmp swap 29G 24K 29G 1% /var/run -- This message posted from opensolaris.org