On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 07:07 -0700, Jim Klimov wrote: > We have a test machine installed with a ZFS root (snv_77/x86 and > "rootpol/rootfs" with grub support). > > Recently tried to update it to snv_89 which (in Flag Days list) claimed more > support for ZFS boot roots, but the installer disk didn't find any previously > installed operating system to upgrade. > > Then we tried to install SUNWlu* packages from snv_89 disk onto snv_77 > system. It worked in terms of package updates, but lucreate fails: > > # lucreate -n snv_89 > ERROR: The system must be rebooted after applying required patches. > Please reboot and try again. > > Apparently we rebooted a lot and it did not help... > > How can we upgrade the system? > > In particular, how does LU do it? :) > > Now working on an idea to update all existing packages in the cloned root, > using pkgrm/pkgadd -R. Updating "only some" packages didn't help much > (kernel, zfs, libs). > > A backup plan is to move the ZFS root back to UFS, update and move it back. > Probably would work, but not an elegant job ;) > > Suggestions welcome, maybe we'll try out some of them and report ;)
The LU support for ZFS root is part of a set of updates to the installer that are not available until snv_90. There is a hack to do an offline upgrade from DVD/CD (zfs_ttinstall), if you can't wait. -Albert _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
