[i][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./i]
So I tried this, selecting "Solaris failsafe" at the boot. It said:
"An out of sync boot archive was detected on /dev/dsk/c2d0s4. The boot archive
[...]
Do you wish to automatically update this boot archive?[y,n,?]"
Not knowing what to do (and remembering that last time this was the last thing
before the panic, I pressed the hard-reset button; and puuhh, could finally
boot back into nv81.
Something must be very wrong either with what I am doing or with live_update,
that a "Failsafe install is complete." ends like this.
Again, here is the layout:
Specify disk (enter its number): 0
selecting c1d0
Controller working list found
[disk formatted, defect list found]
Warning: Current Disk has mounted partitions.
/dev/dsk/c1d0s0 is currently mounted on /. Please see umount(1M).
/dev/dsk/c1d0s1 is currently used by swap. Please see swap(1M).
/dev/dsk/c1d0s4 is in use for live upgrade /. Please see ludelete(1M).
/dev/dsk/c1d0s7 is currently mounted on /export/home. Please see umount(1M).
Again, no typo here, like above: How can format say c1d0s4, while failsafe says
c2d0s4??
This must be a bug!!:
Specify disk (enter its number): 1
selecting c2t0d0
Total disk size is 38913 cylinders
Cylinder size is 16065 (512 byte) blocks
Cylinders
Partition Status Type Start End Length %
========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
1 Linux native 0 30394 30395 78
2 Linux native 30395 36474 6080 16
3 Linux native 36475 38912 2438 6
Maybe this is the underpinning of the whole trouble here?
Remember, earlier the lucreate would create the BE happily humming along on a
non-existing disk /dev/dsk/c0d0s4, though there is simply no master in the
primary IDE, and neither does format find any disk.
/dev/dsk/c2d0s4 is where the failsafe wants to update a boot archive, while
c2d0s4 does not exist.
The drives that I am actually using are:
Primary IDE, slave: DVD - mounts as /dev/dsk/c0t1d0
First Sata: fixed hard disk - mounts as /dev/dsk/c1d0
USB hard disk - mounts as /dev/dsk/c2t0d0
Could this be the bug that has prevented me from achieving a single proper
live_update?
Uwe
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