Can't install nexenta on USB-HDD.

Bug #337599 reported by Gerson "fserve" Barreiros
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Bug Description

When trying to install Nexenta b104-beta1 from my CD-Rom drive to my USB-HDD 40G Samsung, i got a error on screen after selecting the drive to install.

"Error
Cannot create ZFS 'root' pool using disk(s)
with error:

cannot create 'syspool': no such pool or dataset.

in my LOG screen we have:

* Selected disk(s) for auto partitioning: c1t0d0
* Selected 'zfs' configuration
cannot create 'tmp': no such pool or dataset
* Cannot create temporary ZFS pool on disk 'c1t0d0'
cannot open 'tmp': no such pool
* Cannot destroy temporary ZFS pool on disk 'c1tod0'
* Warning! Disk 'c1t0d0' is not labeled correctly: devid is missing
* Slice0: / 4738 cylinders
* Slice7: swap 122 cylinders
* Error: Cannot create ZFS 'root' pool using disk(s) with error:\n\n cannot create 'syspool': no such pool or dataset\n

I and anilg (from #nexenta - irc.freenode.org) tried to workaround

<anilg> can you move to fs and do an 'ls /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0*'
<fserve> ok
<fserve> /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p[0-4]
<fserve> /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s[0-15]
<anilg> ok.. 'zpool create syspool c1t0d0p0' .. note this will destroy any filesystem in c1t0d0.. so be sure this is the USB drive
<anilg> you can see the light blinking etc..
<fserve> zpool create syspool c1t0d0p0
<fserve> cannot create 'syspool': no such pool or dataset
<anilg> ls /dev/dsk/c1t0d0*
<fserve> c1t0d0p[0-4]
<fserve> c1t0d0s[0-15]
<anilg> ok.. zpool create syspool /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0
<fserve> zpool create syspool /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0
<fserve> cannot create 'syspool': no such pool or dataset
<anilg> how about zpool create syspool /dev/dsk/c1t0d0
<anilg> wihtout the p0
<fserve> same error
<anilg> well.. we cant seem to be able to create a zfs pool on this USB disk for some reason
<anilg> do you have another machine wiht nexenta/opensolaris?
<fserve> i have the cd installer
<fserve> and the usb disk
<fserve> so i can plug in another one
<anilg> not sure that will help because we're already tried to use the cd..
<anilg> can you file a bug, and reporting all taat we tried
<anilg> that*
<fserve> same error on the other machine.

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