>> Why does it claim that d30 is not a single-disk stripe? (and why  
>> did it work just fine before?)
>
> I'm not sure why it's not working, that should be detected  
> correctly; when you say it worked fine before, what build was that?

the earlier upgrade was from snv_34 to snv_40


>> Any chance the source to liveupgrade will be put out into the  
>> open, so I wouldn't have to dig in the dark with closed binaries  
>> trying to upgrade my otherwise open source system?
>
> You can try setting the environment variable LU_DEBUG to some  
> integer value and see what additional info you can get out of it.

nothing more :(

wicked# export LU_DEBUG=1
wicked# lucreate -n snv_45 -m /:d30:ufs,preserve
Discovering physical storage devices
Discovering logical storage devices
Cross referencing storage devices with boot environment configurations
Determining types of file systems supported
Validating file system requests
The device name <d30> expands to device path </dev/md/dsk/d30>
Preparing logical storage devices
Preparing physical storage devices
Configuring physical storage devices
Configuring logical storage devices
Analyzing system configuration.
Comparing source boot environment <snv_40> file systems with the file
system(s) you specified for the new boot environment. Determining which
file systems should be in the new boot environment.
Updating boot environment description database on all BEs.
Searching /dev for possible boot environment filesystem devices

ERROR: Mirror </dev/md/dsk/d30> submirror </dev/md/rdsk/d20> is not  
single disk stripe.
ERROR: Cannot determine boot device for Solaris Volume Manager  
metadevice
</dev/md/dsk/d30>. The only metadevices that support the root file  
system
are a stripe with only a single disk or a mirror on a single-disk  
stripe.
wicked#

the successful attempt read

Searching /dev for possible boot environment filesystem devices

Updating system configuration files.
The device </dev/dsk/c1d0s0> is not a root device for any boot  
environment.
Creating configuration for boot environment <snv_40>.

at that point.

I don't know if it's worth noting that I went from / on d30 to the  
upgraded / on d40 and now I'm going back again.

> As for the open-sourcing, well, we're working on the rest of the  
> install consolidation, but I do not expect that we'll be able to  
> open-source Live Upgrade.

pity, guess I'll have to look for some other way to keep upgrading my  
OpenSolaris install in that case :(

thanks - mo

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