Yes - the bar will continue until either an X server starts or the user
hits a key to drop to the text console. If the text console has an error
message telling you what's wrong, it will sit there hidden behind the slider
bar until you hit a key to see it.
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
> What I mean is that the machine sits there with the orange slider going
> back and forth for more than 15 minutes. That is not normal.
>
> Are you saying to hist ESC, even so?
>
> Kostas
>
> mary ding wrote:
>>
>> 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
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>>
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