[OpenIndiana-discuss] warning - don't update OI

[Till Wegmueller]

Hey Richard

There are a couple of things you can do on the Prompt.

Depending on future situations there are the commands 'lsdev' 'lszfs' 
and boot. In this specific instance a lot of these utilities where 
broken aswell. But they can give you the name of the boot environment.

I think tsoome can give some links to tutorials and guides from the 
FreeBSD loader people.

-Till

On 25.07.21 06:04, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> Please let also the openindiana-discuss list know when the real 2.37 binutils is safe and included; some of us don't subscribe to the oi-dev list.
> 
> I'd also admit to some curiosity what the problem with 2.37 was, once that's understood.
> 
> Not to mention whether there's anything that one can do at the "ok" prompt when something like that happens. Booting the optical media image and activating a good BE saved me, but it'd be nice to know all my options.
> 
>> On Jul 24, 2021, at 16:08, Andreas Wacknitz <A.Wacknitz at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> It is now safe again to update.
>>
>> I had to revert the binutils-2.37 update and instead created a fake 2.37
>> package version that delivers the older 2.36.1 version.
>> With that I have re-published the latest illumos-gate packages and
>> successfully installed them on my machines.
>> Thanks to Toomas Soome for helping me and analyzing the problem.
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> Am 7/24/21 um 9:55 AM schrieb Andreas Wacknitz:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> something bad has happened with the last updates and rendered two of my
>>> build servers unbootable. They are both stuck in the boot loader ("start
>>> not found") such that
>>> booting with an old BE won't fix that!
>>>
>>> SO DON'T UPDATE YOUR SYSTEMS FOR NOW!
>>>
>>> I fear that my update of binutils-2.37 may be the culprit.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Andreas
>>>
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