> * Ben Taylor (ben.taylor at sun.com) wrote: > > I have tried this several times. Twice, I used an > local lofi image. > > Since I've got a zfs boot disk, I figured it might > be an interaction > > between the lofi image and zfs. Then I tried > moving the image to > > my nfs server and sharing out the lofi mounted > image. > > > > Same thing happens. > > > > lucreate -n snv_99 > > luupgrade -u -n snv_99 -s /net/myhost/mnt (and it's > a properly shared lofi mounted iso image) > > > > System hard panics, no core. got this traceback > booting kadb. > > Did you install the live upgrade packages from snv_99 > *before* > upgrading?
darn. I forgot to do that. Sheesh. *How* hard is it to put in a check to make sure that is done. > This is required, and has always been required > (though apparently not > publicized well enough given how many people have run > in to this > particular problem). You always upgrade the live > upgrade packages from > the version you are upgrading *to* prior to doing the > actual upgrade. Thanks for the reminder. Can't believe I forgot to do that. 3 years later, they can't be bothered to put in a simple test to make sure people don't forget. If luupgrade had said "you're trying to upgrade to snv_99 with the snv_95 lu bits", I would have avoided this... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
