Re: SLES 12 SP2 - Migration

[Waite, Dick (External)]

Many Thanks Mark. It does seem the issues are with us as there have been no 
other sites reporting issues with Update / Migration. Getting access to the SP2 
environment after the IPL has it's issues but not imposable.

__R

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Sent: 06 December 2016 19:09
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: SLES 12 SP2 - Migration

>>> On 12/5/2016 at 01:44 AM, "Waite, Dick (External)" 
>>> <dick.wa...@softwareag.com>
wrote:
> What information should we try and gather ?

I suppose the status file that dracut generates and tells you to look at would 
be one thing. Perhaps journalctl would be another.


Mark Post

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Re: SLES 12 SP2 - Migration

[Mark Post]

>>> On 12/5/2016 at 01:44 AM, "Waite, Dick (External)" 
>>> 
wrote: 
> What information should we try and gather ?

I suppose the status file that dracut generates and tells you to look at would 
be one thing. Perhaps journalctl would be another.


Mark Post

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Re: SLES 12 SP2 - Migration

[Waite, Dick (External)]

Grand Monday Morning,

We have run a few SLES12 SP2 new installs without issues. Migrating / Updating 
SP1 machines are giving us issues, I'd like to run it past your eyes to see if 
you see where our issue lies.

We have tried Update / migration using a new SP2 iso image and using zypper 
migration and both give the same result. The migration runs grand, no conflict 
issues etc. But on the IPl of the new system we get messages that the IPL disk 
is not found... Letting the time-out expire and a look around one finds that 
"/dev" is missing, so one can understand why the messages.

This is not now and again, it's on all migrations tried. These are machines 
that are running/working SLES12 SP1 machines. Some have been updated from 
SLES12 SP0 to SP1 and now we trying to update / migrate to SP2. As I said, a 
new install is not an issue.

Thoughts on why "/dev" is not there very welcome. The physical channels have 
not changed from SLES12 SP0. What information should we try and gather ?

Wishing you all a grand week.
__R

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