Well, I chose snv122 from the GRUB menu and the machine started booting, but it is stuck in the blue screen with the orange slider, and it doesn't matter how many times I hit ESC. It's frozen. Ideas welcome.
Juanita Heieck wrote: > This happened to me when I did image-update recently. > I hit esc and I had to enable /network/physical:nwam and > reboot. Then I was able to get to the login prompt. > Your issue might be different though. > > Nita > > 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 >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> install-discuss mailing list >>>>>>> install-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>>>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss >>>>>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> install-discuss mailing list >>> install-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> install-discuss mailing list >> install-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss >> >
