Finally, I took the plunge on my main machine to upgrade. Taking my earlier problems and others' suggestions, I made a live-upgrade; exactly as pointed out on the website http://developers.sun.com/sxde/upgrade_guide.jsp I followed meticulously (as far as I know, since I have no experience), read all messages, everything went smoothly. At the end, lustatus showed two boot environments, with the old one being inactive, and the new one marked active.
Alas, after the next reboot, I was dropped to the grub > command; no good sign. It seems all data got lost, because booting to the SXDE0108-DVD, just for curiosity, did not find any Solaris environment; only a Solaris partition to which an 'Install' was proposed. I quit the installer, and format->fdisk would show the partition, and 'partition' display Part 2 backup 37.24 GB Part 8 boot 7.84 MB Part 9 alternates 15.69 BG I'd really love to recover my data :), and I don't believe that they are actually lost: everything was there before the reboot, including the two boot environments. Probably something was screwed up at reboot, with the partition/slice table damaged. So I hope. Explanation, why this happened? I dunno; maybe has to make with /dev/hda1 being a Linux /boot/, and /dev/hda2 being a partition to hold Nevada, /dev/hda3 being a Nexenta partition? and more partitions higher up being dedicated to the Linux install? Uwe This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
