1. udippel wrote: ............................ The Solaris upgrade of the boot environment is partially complete. Installing failsafe Failsafe install is complete.
also wrote: ........... By the way, I wonder if - with all the virtualisation - we should be able to 'test-boot' a boot environment; be it in VxM, qemu or whatnot. Doesn't need to be fast, not even X, just to get a console. yes, so the 'failsafe" install you achieved above is exactly what you ask for in the second excerpt, by selecting a failsafe boot under Grub, you should be presented with the 'Milestone' menu. then you can select to boot into the BE of choice and end upat a terminal prompt. the idea then being to manually install the missing packages. maybe with verbose output to a text file and figure out what went wrong with the update. 2. SUNWxwplt - im pretty sure this is part of the X windows install and is specific to SPARC processors, so if you are x86, probably dont need this SUNWmcc - sunmanagement console, probably dont need this either but dont quote me on it, hehe 3. if you use the now standard sun strategy for file setup, ie one slice for root (/) and another slice for everything else, I think this leaves as many as five (5) free slices that you can make new BE s in before you have to recycle. when using ufs btw. so, why not make another one ie format-->partition-->print, set up a new slice in an unassigned, etc (remember to set flag to WM not WU, and write down the slice number). then run lucreate on your new slice and BOOT into the new BE WITHOUT upgrading, just to make sure it is functional and we dont have some other problem here that is more basic in nature. (sorry for the caps hehe). youll just be using a clone of your current BE, with a different label on a different slice/BE. I love how you can migrate stuff this way. 4. remember that the community editions are not fully tested and it is always possible to run into a bug so to recap, it looks like you should actually succeeded except for the two packages and you simply need to install them/troubleshoot individually, and the upgraded BE nv91 should be able to boot to a console prompt gl. This message posted from opensolaris.org
