[OpenIndiana-discuss] Unable to boot from BE created today

[Geoff Nordli]

On 2018-11-02 1:59 p.m., Till Wegmüller wrote:
> Ah yeah that is a quite old one :)
>
> You need to use the bootadm from the new BE.
>
> Greetings
> Till
>
> On 11/02/18 09:36 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
>> On 2018-11-02 12:38 p.m., Till Wegmüller wrote:
>>> Hi Russel
>>>
>>> Did /var/adm/messages Say anything about the rebooting? Like a Panic?
>>>
>>> Greetings
>>> Till
>>>
>>> On 11/02/18 07:47 PM, russell wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Today I performed a pkg refresh and update to create a new BE, I did
>>>> however make my previous BE the active one before attempting to boot
>>>> from the new BE. Booting occurs normal, I select the new BE created
>>>> today, the boot process starts and then my computer reboots within 8
>>>> seconds.
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone else experiencing the same problem?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Russell
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> Hi Russell.
>>
>> I had some problems the other day going from legacy OI -> Hipster.  I
>> ended up having to go to just Hipster-2015.
>>
>> At the very end of the upgrade I was getting an error like:
>>
>> pkg /sbin/bootadm update-archive -R /tmp/xxxxx failed with a return code
>> of 1
>>
>> Do you see something like that?
>>
>> Geoff
>>
>>
>>
Thanks for the info Till, sorry for hi-jacking the thread.  I thought it 
may have been related.

I will give that a try.

Geoff