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 look at http://iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elkner/luc/solaris-upgrade.txt shouldn't hurt ;-) > those lines, and the U8 BE came up ok. I wasn't sure if there were any > other problems from that, so I tried to activate and boot back into my > previous U6 BE. That now fails with this error: > > *************************************************** > * This device is not bootable! * > * It is either offlined or detached or faulted. * > * Please try to boot from a different device. * > *************************************************** > > > NOTICE: > spa_import_rootpool: error 22 > > Cannot mount root on /p...@1,0/pci1022,7...@4/pci11ab,1...@1/d...@0,0:a > fstype zfs > > panic[cpu0]/thread=fffffffffbc283a0: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root > > I can still boot fine into the new U8 BE, but so far have found no way to > recover and boot into my previously existing U6 BE. Hmm - haven't done thumper upgrades yet, but on sparc there is no problem to boot into the old BE as long as the zpool hasn't been upgraded to U8's v15. So first thing to check is, whether the pool is still at <=v10 (U7 used v10, not sure about U6). Regards, jel. -- Otto-von-Guericke University http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science Geb. 29 R 027, Universitaetsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Tel: +49 391 67 12768 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
