It worked ok for me on a Sun V100 ...but I tried to upgrade a sparc 
clone and it didn't work at all - it upgraded...and then it wouldn't boot


Luke J Militello wrote:
> Hi, I have a Sun E420R running gutsy and as is it approaching EOL, I
> would like to upgrade it to hardy so I can get LTS support.  However, I
> did attempt this once and it had disastrous results.  It would seem the
> upgrade took, but upon rebooting the server, about half way through the
> startup, the console started to display garbled characters, couldn't
> even SSH to it and rendered it useless.  I ended up having to re-install
> gutsy and restore the server from backups.  I would really enjoy doing
> an upgrade and have it work like it should, thus I have been scared to
> make any attempt at it again.  I guess my question is, has there been
> any luck with doing a successful upgrade from gutsy to hardy on sparc64
> arch?  As I stated before, I (and I am sure many others) would like to
> upgrade before gutsy goes EOL, but would like to do so with confidence
> it will work as it should.  Thanks.
>
>

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Getting upgrade prerequisites for system upgrade failed
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