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. > > -- Getting upgrade prerequisites for system upgrade failed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/239458 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
