On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Ethan Quach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Henry Jen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I try to do image-update from opensolaris 2008.05(nv86), but the command
>> failed, and the cause seems to be cannot create/copy BE.
>>  $ pfexec pkg image-update
>> pkg: unable to create an auto snapshot. pkg recovery is disabled.
>> pkg: image-update cannot be done on live image
>>
>> The last couple lines of image-update -v are:
>>
>> pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.86:20080426T174943Z -> pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> ,5.11-0.91:20080613T174335Z
>> None -> pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.91:20080613T182501Z
>> None -> pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.91:20080613T174340Z
>> None -> pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.91:20080613T182505Z
>> None
>> pkg: unable to create BE None
>> pkg: attempt to mount opensolaris failed.
>> pkg: image-update cannot be done on live image
>>
>
> Looks like it fails to create a snapshot of the running BE, which
> causes all the other errors coming from pkg.  Unfortunately, the
> version of beadm in 2008.05 doesn't allow for any workarounds for
> providing better error or debug messages from beadm.
>
> Can you provide the output of 'zfs list', and 'beadm list'
>

$ zfs list
NAME                                    USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
osol                                   5.12G  3.87G    19K  /osol
osol/ROOT                              5.11G  3.87G    18K  /osol/ROOT
osol/ROOT/opensolaris                  5.11G  3.87G  5.04G  legacy
osol/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]    77.0M      -  5.04G  -
pool                                   28.4G  7.98G    18K  /pool
pool/ROOT                              5.10G  7.98G    18K  legacy
pool/ROOT/opensolaris-1                5.10G  7.98G  5.04G  /mnt
pool/ROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]  66.5M      -  5.04G  -
pool/home                              22.6G  7.98G    19K  /export/home
pool/home/henryjen                     22.6G  7.98G  13.0G
/export/home/henryjen
pool/home/henryjen/foss                2.88G  7.98G  2.88G
/export/home/henryjen/foss
pool/home/henryjen/prj                 6.68G  7.98G  6.68G
/export/home/henryjen/prj
pool/zones                              743M  7.98G    20K  /export/zones
pool/zones/vm1                          743M  7.98G   743M
/export/zones/vm1

$ beadm list

BE            Active Active on Mountpoint Space
Name                 reboot               Used
----          ------ --------- ---------- -----
opensolaris   yes    no        legacy     5.11G
opensolaris-1 no     yes       -          5.10G


>
> Does <pool>/boot/grub/menu.lst exist?  If not, see below.
>

No.


>
>> It might worth note that I installed OpenSolaris in a partition with a
>> process roughly described at
>> http://blogs.sun.com/slowhog/entry/install_opensolaris_side_by_side.
>>
>> I did some experiment on beadm command, and found that I cannot use the
>> same pool, but has to copy the BE to another pool. I.e, 'pfexec beadm create
>> test' says cannot create, but 'pfexec beadm create -p pool create test'
>> succeed. However, I cannot activate the new BE on other pool:
>>
>> $ pfexec beadm activate opensolaris-1
>> beadm: Unable to activate opensolaris-1
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
> What device are you actually booting from?


Not sure. But I guess you arr right that it is booting from the UFS slice.
The GRUB menu does match the /boot/grub/menu.lst on the slice, which is
c4d0s0 in my case.

Here is the list of partitions:

partition> print
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 7293 + 2 (reserved cylinders)

Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders        Size            Blocks
  0       root    wm    1262 - 2454        9.14GB    (1193/0/0)  19165545
  1       swap    wu       3 -   68      517.72MB    (66/0/0)     1060290
  2     backup    wm       0 - 7292       55.87GB    (7293/0/0) 117162045
  3 unassigned    wm      69 - 1261        9.14GB    (1193/0/0)  19165545
  4 unassigned    wu       0               0         (0/0/0)            0
  5 unassigned    wu       0               0         (0/0/0)            0
  6 unassigned    wu       0               0         (0/0/0)            0
  7 unassigned    wm    2455 - 7292       37.06GB    (4838/0/0)  77722470
  8       boot    wu       0 -    0        7.84MB    (1/0/0)        16065
  9 alternates    wu       1 -    2       15.69MB    (2/0/0)        32130


> From the instructions
> listed in that blog, I don't see an installgrub ever done on the
> slice containing the pool you created for OpenSolaris.  This tells
> me that you're still booting the UFS slice with your existing LU BE.
> While this works in allowing you to choose to boot the OpenSolaris
> BE, beadm won't be happy because it expects the OpenSolaris BE to be
> in bootable root pool with its own menu.lst   In a bootable root pool
> the menu.lst is stored in "pool dataset" of the pool.  If you're
> currently booted to your OpenSolaris BE, try this:
>
> Mount the slice containing your UFS BE somewhere, e.g. /mnt
>
> Copy the menu.lst from that slice into the pool dataset:
>
>   cp /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst <pool>/boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> Install grub into the slice used for you pool.  (This will make your
> pool the default device that's booted, no longer your UFS slice, but
> you can still boot your UFS BE by selecting it from the menu)
>
>   installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 <vdev_used_for_pool>
>
>
I 'cp /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst osol/boot/grub/menu.lst' and did 'installgrub
/boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c4d0s3', after that, beadm
list now gives:

$ beadm list

BE            Active Active on Mountpoint Space
Name                 reboot               Used
----          ------ --------- ---------- -----
opensolaris   yes    yes       legacy     5.11G
opensolaris-1 no     yes       -          5.10G

After reboot, GRUB does not show up, and boot into OpenSolaris with a
keystroke.


> Now, depending on what your menu entry looks like for your OpenSolaris
> BE, beadm should start to work.  As long as your menu entry contains
> the 'bootfs' directive with the correct dataset value, beadm should be
> happy.
>

> Let me know if this works.
>


Thanks, I am doing image-update now. Will see if grub works later.



>
>
>
>> PS. After destroy the /opt zfs filesystem, beadm create now simply segment
>> fault. Is there an assumption there must be a /opt filesystem?
>>
>
> No, there's no assumption that there must be any subordinate file
> systems.  I have an instance of OpenSolaris installed with just a
> root file system and things work fine.  If you send me the core
> file, I'll take a look.


Attached is two of them.

Thanks for helping, Ethan.

Cheers,
Henry
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