On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:02 PM, David Brodbeck <bro...@uw.edu> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com> wrote: > >> Hands up all those who've bricked a Linux system or had a Solaris 10 >> system that wouldn't play with live upgrade. >> > > I've had a couple instances where Linux systems wouldn't boot after kernel > updates. Generally these have been software, not hardware issues -- some > versions of the kernel changed how disks were identified. It's enough that > I never apply kernel patches in a situation where it would be difficult to > travel to the site (unless I have good IPMI console support.) > > Oh yeah -- another reason is I've run into many situations where OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana requires a full power cycle to reboot -- at least one of my machines hangs if I try to do a soft reboot in OI. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
