[oi-dev] loader problems on upgrade

[Toomas Soome]

> On 29. May 2020, at 16:09, Carsten Grzemba via oi-dev <oi-dev at openindiana.org> wrote:
> 
> I upgraded my system  on Supermicro X10SLM from quite older OI (2017) to current and faces some problems here.
> Got a system panic on first boot an then on loader
> - loader shows a lot of old BE's which not exist anymore for a long time in the rpool

Loader does get the BE list from rpool/boot/menu.lst file, you can remove the file and when you use beadm, it will re-populate it.


> - if I walk through the BE list I can't select a BE in the subsequent choices, it selects from the first choice, forunatly select with 'beadm' on loader CLI works!

hitting ghost entries?

> - most most annoying thing: can't see the serial console anymore if the system boots, on the old version it worked with ttyb

set console=ttyb
boot -k

rgds,
toomas