Re: [OmniOS-discuss] A warning for upgraders with large numbers of BEs
Hi, Dan McDonald dan...@omniti.com wrote at 2015-03-23 16:14: Soon r151014 will be hitting the streets. WHEN THAT DOES, I have to warn people, especially those jumping from r151006 to r151014 about a known issue in grub. The illumos grub has serious memory management issues. It cannot cope with too many boot environment (BE) entries. Sorry for semi-offtopicing the thread, but: Will the lx brand be restored in the upcoming release? Is there a feature map / release plan / anything available? I tried to find information regarding this topic without success. I checked this url: http://omnios.omniti.com/roadmap.php But nothing relevant information was there. It seems outdated / unmaintained. I've just recently find this distro. I used openindiana since Oracle... -- Did what they did to opensolaris -- So, I'm new here, sorry for lame questions. Kind regards, György Pásztor ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
Re: [OmniOS-discuss] A warning for upgraders with large numbers of BEs
If the LX brand is in I would volunteer with testing different Linux-Disto's. Regards Andreas On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 05:40:50 +0800, Dan McDonald dan...@omniti.com wrote: The LX brand hadn't been upstreamed yet. Once it has, we will include it. We will likely assist in its upstreaming, but not at the moment. Dan Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all) On Mar 23, 2015, at 4:53 PM, PÁSZTOR György pasz...@linux.gyakg.u-szeged.hu wrote: Hi, Dan McDonald dan...@omniti.com wrote at 2015-03-23 16:14: Soon r151014 will be hitting the streets. WHEN THAT DOES, I have to warn people, especially those jumping from r151006 to r151014 about a known issue in grub. The illumos grub has serious memory management issues. It cannot cope with too many boot environment (BE) entries. Sorry for semi-offtopicing the thread, but: Will the lx brand be restored in the upcoming release? Is there a feature map / release plan / anything available? I tried to find information regarding this topic without success. I checked this url: http://omnios.omniti.com/roadmap.php But nothing relevant information was there. It seems outdated / unmaintained. I've just recently find this distro. I used openindiana since Oracle... -- Did what they did to opensolaris -- So, I'm new here, sorry for lame questions. Kind regards, György Pásztor ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss -- Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
[OmniOS-discuss] A warning for upgraders with large numbers of BEs
Soon r151014 will be hitting the streets. WHEN THAT DOES, I have to warn people, especially those jumping from r151006 to r151014 about a known issue in grub. The illumos grub has serious memory management issues. It cannot cope with too many boot environment (BE) entries. The upper-limit on r151006 was ~60. The upper-limit on r151014 is ~40. If you upgrade an r151006 machine with 50 BEs to r151014, you may lose the ability to boot (but not your data or even rpool). If you have more than 40 BEs on your rpool, I'd highly recommend trimming some back prior to an upgrade. We've been (the illumos community, not just OmniOS) trying to figure out what to fix in grub, but it's opaque code at best. The r151014 installation upgrade page will have this warning as well, but I wanted to give the community a heads-up now, so you could prepare prior to the upgrade to r151014. Dan ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
