Here's some further information...

After seeing "-v" suggested for use during boot in another list thread, I 
tried that and it gets as far as:

PCIE-device: pci8086,[EMAIL PROTECTED], pcie_pci9
pcie_pci9 is /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci8086,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci8086,[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]/pci8086,[EMAIL PROTECTED]

When I reboot into snv_79a and list the device/slice it should be booting 
into, I get:

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          90 Feb  8 16:16 /dev/dsk/c4t4d0s0 -> 
../../devices/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci8086,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci8086,[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]/pci8086,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1000,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL 
PROTECTED],0:a

So, perhaps it's getting stuck trying to get to the OS drive?  The OS 
drive is a 2-SATA-disk mirror on an LSI SAS3041E-R controller on an Intel 
S5000PSL motherboard with 2 Xeon 5160 3.0 Ghz dual-core processors. 
Could this be a driver issue to the LSI controller?

Thanks for any insights anyone can provide...


                               Art


On Thu, 22 May 2008, 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:  [EMAIL PROTECTED], phone:  814-863-1563
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Arthur A. Person
Research Assistant, System Administrator
Penn State Department of Meteorology
email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED], phone:  814-863-1563
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