Kostas: It is not hang, osol using happy face boot. You can hit Esc to disable happy face boot and you should see normal boot messages.
Kostas Oikonomou wrote: > I finished the upgrade, but when the machine tries to boot snv122, it > hangs on the splash screen (where the slider moves across the blue > screen). > > This is strange, as I have an identical machine at home running snv122. > The only difference is that the machine that's hanging has 4GB of memory > and a 500GB disk, whereas the home machine that works fine has 2GB > memory and 320GB disk. > > Any ideas? > > Kostas > > mary ding wrote: >> Kostas: >> >> According to the notes that I have, you can do this: >> >> >> beadm create <be-name> >> beadm mount <be-name> /mnt >> pkg -R /mnt install entire at 0.5.11-0.122 >> bootadm update-archive -R /mnt >> beadm umount <be-name> >> beadm activate <be-name> >> >> but it only upgrades the bits from your opensolaris.org publisher, and >> nothing from /extra, /contrib, etc. You'll have to do those by hand. >> >> >> Kostas Oikonomou wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I just received a new HP machine and replaced its Windows Vista with >>> snv 118 from a DVD I had. >>> Now I'd like to upgrade to a later release, but I know that snv 124 >>> has some problems that to me are critical. >>> >>> So I would like to install snv 122. But how do I do this? Can it be >>> done with package manager? >>> >>> Thanks for your help. >>> >>> Kostas >>> _______________________________________________ >>> install-discuss mailing list >>> install-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss >>
