Jean and Dick: It is possible to live upgrade from s10u3 to s10u5 with non-global zones. YOu need to install the list of patches documentated in infodoc 206844.
In addition, you also need the following patches for p7zip and cpio as well: For Solaris 10 5/08, the compression of the install images is now unzipped with the 7zip utility. In order for live upgrade to work with Solaris 10 5/08, the following patches needs to be applied: Solaris 10 sparc - 137321-01 or later Solaris 10 x86 - 137322-01 or later Solaris 9 sparc - 137477-01 or later Solaris 9 x86 - 137478-01 or later Live upgrade for Solaris 8 will not be supported. Workaround is to use regular upgrade or live upgrade to Solaris 9 or Solaris 10 and then live upgrade to Solaris 10 5/08. Cpio patches for live upgrade with zones: Solaris 10 sparc - 127922-03 or later Solaris 10 x86 - 127923-03 or later You can live upgrade with zones from S10, S10u1, u2, u3 and u4. Jean McCormack wrote: > Dick, > > Just to make sure I have this correct, you're trying to live-upgrade a > S10U3 system with non-global zones > to S10U5. Is this correct? > > If so, you'll need to upgrade from S10U3 to S10u4 first. In S10U4 we > introduced the Zones Upgrade via Live Upgrade > feature so then you can live-upgrade from S10U4 to S10U5 or Nevada if > you wish. > > Here's a link to the document that should help you. > http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-72099-1 > > Jean > > Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >> On Thu, 8 May 2008 12:12:46 +0200 >> Dick Hoogendijk <dick at nagual.nl> wrote: >> >> >>> I have absolutely no idea why it is not possible to create a boot >>> environment. >>> >> In the meantime I tested some other settings. I have a s10u3 machine >> running three zones (website/cyrus mailer/userzone). >> I moved the zones into the root under /zones. >> >> I did a "normal" lucreate -> root was created/zones duplicated >> I *merged* the /zones into one root (one slice) >> I gave root and /zones their own slice. >> >> [newsgroup] >> Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris >> From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick at nagual.nl> >> Subject: Re: lucreate errors..getting desperate >> >> quoting Oscar del Rio (Thu, 08 May 2008 08:20:03 -0400): >> >>> Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >>> >>> >>>> arwen# lucreate -c s10u3 -n s10u5 -m /:c1d0s0:ufs -l /root/lu.log >>>> >>> >>> >>>> ERROR: Unable to remount ABE <s10u5>: cannot make ABE bootable >>>> ERROR: no boot environment is mounted on root device >>>> </dev/dsk/c1d0s0> Making the ABE <s10u5> bootable FAILED. >>>> >>> try giving the zones their own disk slice(s) in the new BE. >>> >>> -m /zones:/c1d0s4:ufs >>> >> I will try. >> I just ran the -m /:/dev... -m /zones:merged:ufs -n .. >> The zone directory was merged alright in the root. But again, the same >> error about not being able to make the new ABE bootable. >> Here we go for the seperate slices run.. >> Be back in some time from now ;-) >> ============= >> Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris >> From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick at nagual.nl> >> Subject: Re: lucreate errors..getting desperate >> >> quoting Dick Hoogendijk (Thu, 08 May 2008 17:23:44 +0200): >> >>> I had changed it in an acceptable form ;-) But meanwhile, giving (/) >>> root and /zones their own slice did not help. The end is still the >>> same. The ABE cannot be made bootable. And I have NO idea why that is, >>> because the normal installgrub line works OK. >>> >> I just checked the slices. All files seem to have been copied OK. >> The /etc/lu directory is OK and the /etc/vfstab too. >> If ONLY this ABE would be made bootable. >> Why is this not happening? >> ============= >> >> NOTHING has helped as you can see. Everything is fine, no matter how I >> do it, except for making the ABE bootable. >> >> I really hope to get some answers on this. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
