Zoltan Farkas wrote: > I have a system with Solaris Express DE 02/07 and I want to upgrade it to > Solaris Express CE b65. > > I have c1d0 and c2d0 mirrored boot disks with svm and have c1d1 and c2d1 > mounted as a zfs file system in a mirrored config. all drives are on the same > intel sata controler (in legacy mode, hardware raid disabled). > > Now when I am booting from the build 65 DVD and get into the install screen > and select custom install I get to a screen where solaris is telling be that > c2d1 is the boot disk (and it's not in my current config unless the installer > renumbers them). I assume it's renumbered and when I try to go to the next > screen it says that the disk is not formatted and it will run fdisk on it, > now at this point I cancel the instalation since I don't want to risk loozing > my data. > My 2 boot svm managed drives have 1 solaris2 fdisk partition each. the zfs > ones have 1 EFI fdisk partition each. > THe ZFS drives have been added at a later time, they were not present at > initial install. > > Now the possible problems can be: > > Installer does not detect the actual boot disk? > Installer does not recognize a partitioned disk? > Installer names devices differently than host OS? > > I have a question: > where in the install process should I get the upgrade option? > how does the upgrade deal with my SVM mirrored root ? > > I haven't done an upgrade install for a long time (I use Live Upgrade), but I'd try this:
zpool export the ZFS pool. detach one side of the SVM mirror. Power off, disconnect the ZFS drives and the detached mirror. Try again. Upgrades with SVM are documented on docs.sun.com, but I don't have a link. Ian _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
