Ah, I see. Thanks. Meanwhile, I reverted to snv118. (Very
handy feature, to put it mildly, these multiple boot
environments.) I will retry snv122 and find out what the
error is tomorrow.
Kostas
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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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