[OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading from 134b to 148 fails

[Jonathan Adams]

You aren't by any chance using hardware raid on the v20z, are you?

I know that Solaris 9 wouldn't work on the v20z's with hardware raid
at all, and Solaris 10 didn't really like them ... but with ZFS on the
disks you are as well turning off the hardware raid and lettings the
OS handle it.

We only run Solaris 10 on ours, but that's the way we do it now.

On 6 January 2011 18:57, Gary Gendel <gary at genashor.com> wrote:
> Jon,
>
> The liveCD was on a laptop with internal keyboard and trackpad.  I tried
> plugging in a USB mouse and keyboard which got me further, but then it
> barfed a little later in the process.  This is why I decided to try
> upgrading from the repository, but that BE wouldn't boot.  It loaded all the
> drivers and then hung.
>
> As for the v20z I don't have a keyboard/mouse issue.  Mine has been solid,
> except it won't update to the latest firmware, go figure.
>
> My process has been to put a new release on the laptop and exercise it to
> make sure there are no show-stoppers.  If it looks good I upgrade the v20z.
>  I do it this way so I have minimal downtime on this machine.
>
> If I felt courageous enough, I could split the boot disk mirror and install
> OI fresh on one disk so I can recover from a failed install.  Unfortunately,
> it will take a lot of effort to install, configure and initialize everything
> from backup.  I figure it will take most of a day.
>
> Gary
>
> Alan,
>
> I'll try the text install on the laptop and let you know what I find.  If I
> try the repository upgrade on the v20z, is there a session log that might
> contain better information about the python crash?  Thanks.
>
> Gary
>