Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-28 Thread dick hoogendijk
Ben Middleton wrote: I'm just looking for a clean way to remove the old BE, and then remove the old snapshot without interfering with Live Upgrade from working in the future. Remove the right line from /etc/lutab Remove the ICF. and INODE. where is the same as the line in /etc/lutab from t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-28 Thread Jens Elkner
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 01:55:57AM -0700, Ben Middleton wrote: Hi, > $ ludelete 10_05-09 > > System has findroot enabled GRUB > Checking if last BE on any disk... > ERROR: cannot mount '/.alt.10_05-09/var': directory is not empty > ERROR: cannot mount mount point device > > ERROR: failed to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-28 Thread Ben Middleton
> + dev=`echo $dev | sed 's/mirror.*/mirror/'` Thanks for the suggestion Kurt. However, I'm not running a mirror on that pool - so am guessing this won't help in my case. I'll try and pick my way through the lulib script if I get any time. Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-28 Thread Kurt Schreiner
Hi, On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 01:55:57AM -0700, Ben Middleton wrote: > > As a related issue to this (specifically CR 6884728) - any ideas how > I should go about removing the old BE? I haven'd tried this on U8, but maybe the following hack I did on sxce_125 to be able to go back to older BEs will

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-28 Thread Ben Middleton
Hi, As a related issue to this (specifically CR 6884728) - any ideas how I should go about removing the old BE? When I attempt to run ludelete I get the following: $ lustatus Boot Environment Is Active ActiveCanCopy Name Complete NowOn Reb

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-20 Thread Philip Brown
Quote: cindys "3. Boot failure from a previous BE if either #1 or #2 failure occurs." #1 or #2 were not relevant in my case. Just found I could not boot into old u7 be. I am happy with workaround as shinsui points out, so this is purely for your information. Quote: renil82 "U7 did not encount

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-19 Thread Renil Thomas
Were you able to get more insight about this problem ? U7 did not encounter such problems. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-19 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, dick hoogendijk wrote: > It's a bootblock issue. If you really want to get back to u6 you have to > "installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2" from th update 6 image > so mount it (with lumount or easier, with zfs mount) and make sure you > take the stage1 stage2 from t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-19 Thread Cindy Swearingen
We are working on evaluating all the issues and will get problem descriptions and resolutions posted soon. I've asked some of you to contact us directly to provide feedback and hope those wheels are turning. So far, we have these issues: 1. Boot failure after LU with a separate var dataset. Thi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-17 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 08:11 -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > same problem here on sun x2100 amd64 It's a bootblock issue. If you really want to get back to u6 you have to "installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2" from th update 6 image so mount it (with lumount or easier, with zfs mount) and m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-17 Thread Philip Brown
same problem here on sun x2100 amd64 i started with a core installation of u7 with the only patches applied as outlined in live upgrade doco 206844 ( http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-61-206844-1 ). also as stated in doco: pkgrm SUNWlucfg SUNWluu SUNWlur and then from 10/9

Re: [zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-16 Thread Jens Elkner
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:36:04PM -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote: > > I used live upgrade to update a U6+lots'o'patches system to vanilla U8. I > ran across CR 6884728, which results in extraneous lines in vfstab > preventing successful boot. I logged in with maintainence mode and deleted Haveing a

[zfs-discuss] Liveupgrade'd to U8 and now can't boot previous U6 BE :(

2009-10-16 Thread Paul B. Henson
I used live upgrade to update a U6+lots'o'patches system to vanilla U8. I ran across CR 6884728, which results in extraneous lines in vfstab preventing successful boot. I logged in with maintainence mode and deleted those lines, and the U8 BE came up ok. I wasn't sure if there were any other probl