Alan,
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> I think you've got something very confused there - I'm fairly sure that
> it's impossible to Live Upgrade from snv_79a to 2008.05 as there is no
> version of Live Upgrade that knows about IPS packaging, and the one that
> knows about ZFS root isn't released yet (coming in snv_90 soon, but not
> published outside Sun yet).
Yes... I was just figuring that out. I read the blurb about SXDE (which I was
using) being EOL'd and it appeared that 2008.05 was replacing it. I went to
the 2008.05 page to download the software but clicked on the link to the right
to download 2 DVD's (but didn't notice that was the SXCE version!). I got
those downloaded but then the image was corrupt when I put it together... I'm
thinking I hit the "cp -p" bug in build 79a when I copied the images from my
download system because in checking things today, I get bad md5's. So... I'm
trying SXCE b89 now... I'm assuming things will work as they should installing
from clean copies. The whole upgrade path thing and versions seem a bit
confusing however...
Thanks for the help...
Art
> -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
>
> Arthur Person wrote:
>> Hi...
>>
>> I've been running SXDE snv_79a and, seeing that it has a limited future,
>> wanted to upgrade to the new 2008.05 version. I did what appeared to be a
>> successful luupgrade from 79a onto a different partition on my OS disk
>> (ufs). The only error was a failure to install SUNWscmu, but I don't have
>> any StorageTek stuff so I don't think that should affect system viability.
>> When I went to reboot, the default GRUB came up with the snv_79a failsafe
>> as the default and when I tried to select either b87 or its failsafe
>> version to boot, the machine just hangs, usually with a processor error
>> upon reboot which I have to clear. The failsafe version gets as far as
>> "configuring /dev" while b87 itself gets as far as the build
>> version/copyright notice on the screen. I am able to revert back to the
>> 79a version and things resume working normally.
>>
>> Can someone help me with ideas why this won't boot or what to try?
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>> Art
>>
>> Arthur A. Person
>> Research Assistant, System Administrator
>> Penn State Department of Meteorology
>> email: ap60 at meteo.psu.edu, phone: 814-863-1563
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Arthur A. Person
Research Assistant, System Administrator
Penn State Department of Meteorology
email: person at meteo.psu.edu, phone: 814-863-1563
