[oi-dev] OI 2017-05 snapshot: AMD Athlon 64 (K8) compatibility issues

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Jean-Pierre André <
jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Jean-Pierre André wrote:
>
>> ken mays via oi-dev wrote:
>>
>>> On that note, be aware of prior notice on AMD64 Athlon 64-based
>>> computers and the use of software from:
>>>
>>
>> I have such a computer, which I intended to upgrade to 2017.04
>>
>> Is booting on a live-usb a valid test for presence/absence of
>> further problems ahead ? (IOW is the problem in the new loader or
>> in the kernel ?)
>>
>
> As nobody told whether the issue lies within the new loader or
> in the kernel, and bug #8169 pointed at an issue in the loader,
> I tried updating the current installation with the grub loader
> kept in place (BE_HAS_GRUB=true in /etc/default/be).
>
> After the update, I can only boot into the new BE in single user
> mode. Two kinds of errors are displayed :
>
> 1) svc:/system/metainit: default:
>         method "lib/svc/method/svc-metainit"
>         failed with exit status 127
> (shown three times then transitioned to maintenance).
>

This one is documented as resulting from  an incorrect deprecation of a
service.
It is fixed with svccfg delete metainit.

>
> 2) APIC Error interrupt on CPU 1. Status 0 = 0, Status 1 = 80
> This second error is traditional on this computer and is
> normally avoided by the boot option "acpi-user-options=0x2"
> which was in place.
>
> Are these the errors which I was warned against ?
>
> Have they something to do with bug #8169 ?
>
> Do they mean I am kicked out, or is there a way to update
> to the latest state before the bug was created ?
>

Only install media is affected as the bug was fixed the day after the
release:

https://www.illumos.org/issues/8119



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