Here's some further information...
After seeing "-v" suggested for use during boot in another list thread, I
tried that and it gets as far as:
PCIE-device: pci8086,3510 at 0, pcie_pci9
pcie_pci9 is /pci at 0,0/pci8086,25f7 at 2/pci8086,3500 at 0/pci8086,3510 at 0
When I reboot into snv_79a and list the device/slice it should be booting
into, I get:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 90 Feb 8 16:16 /dev/dsk/c4t4d0s0 ->
../../devices/pci at 0,0/pci8086,25f7 at 2/pci8086,3500 at 0/pci8086,3510 at
0/pci1000,3090 at 0/sd at 4,0:a
So, perhaps it's getting stuck trying to get to the OS drive? The OS
drive is a 2-SATA-disk mirror on an LSI SAS3041E-R controller on an Intel
S5000PSL motherboard with 2 Xeon 5160 3.0 Ghz dual-core processors.
Could this be a driver issue to the LSI controller?
Thanks for any insights anyone can provide...
Art
On Thu, 22 May 2008, Arthur Person wrote:
> Hi...
>
> I've been running SXDE snv_79a and, seeing that it has a limited future,
> wanted to upgrade to the new 2008.05 version. I did what appeared to be a
> successful luupgrade from 79a onto a different partition on my OS disk
> (ufs). The only error was a failure to install SUNWscmu, but I don't have
> any StorageTek stuff so I don't think that should affect system viability.
> When I went to reboot, the default GRUB came up with the snv_79a failsafe
> as the default and when I tried to select either b87 or its failsafe
> version to boot, the machine just hangs, usually with a processor error
> upon reboot which I have to clear. The failsafe version gets as far as
> "configuring /dev" while b87 itself gets as far as the build
> version/copyright notice on the screen. I am able to revert back to the
> 79a version and things resume working normally.
>
> Can someone help me with ideas why this won't boot or what to try?
>
> Thanks...
>
> Art
>
> Arthur A. Person
> Research Assistant, System Administrator
> Penn State Department of Meteorology
> email: ap60 at meteo.psu.edu, phone: 814-863-1563
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Arthur A. Person
Research Assistant, System Administrator
Penn State Department of Meteorology
email: person at meteo.psu.edu, phone: 814-863-1563
