Nigel Smith wrote: > Ok, I have given it a try, and here is my feedback: > > I have never done an install from a bfu archive before, > but I thought I would give it a try. > Usefully, Ben Rockwood gave some advice, via his blog, > on how to do a bfu upgrade, at just the right time: > http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=802 > > I had snv_57 installed, but was anyway planning soon to upgrade > to snv_60, so I was not too worried if it trashed my os. > As the vconsole seemed to be built for build 47, this was > effectively a downgrade, so I was expecting problems. > > I downloaded the 'vconsole-20060908.i386.tar.bz2' file. (File size is 89MB) > and used BFU. > I kept a log of all the commands and output, and rather that post it here, > as it is rather long, I have uploaded it to my web site in case any one > is interested to take a look: > http://www.nwsmith.net/solaris/vconsole-bfu-downgrade.txt > > Ok, so after the BFU was installed, I rebooted. > > During restart, I got various errors: > ...undefined symbol... > ...cannot load module... > ...service failed to start - transitioned to maintenance... > > But, surprisingly, I did end with getting a console login! > So I logged in: > > login as: root > Password: > Last login: Fri Mar 30 20:21:58 2007 > Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.11 vt-gate October 2007 > bfu'ed from /root/vconsole-20060908.i386/vconsole-bfu-i386-b47/ on > 2007-03-30 > Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.11 snv_57 October 2007 > # uname -a > SunOS solaris 5.11 vt-gate i86pc i386 i86pc > # > > I pressed Alt-F1 and got a 'vt1 login:' > (Good!) > I then pressed Alt-F2, but just got ^[[225z > (Bad!) > > It seems you cannot (always) immediately follow Alt-F#, by another > Alt-F# and get the next console. Sometimes it works, but other times > it just displays ^[[22# (Where # represents a digit) > > (It seems that after you press Alt-F#, you need to press a different > key, before it will accept another Alt-F#) >
You can not press one key for next hot-key sequence. For instance, you need to release "Alt" firstly before "Alt-F2". This is a typical usage in Solaris. > And how do you get back to the 'console'? > You can use "Alt-h" to go back /dev/console. But we will change the hot keys sequence in next version to make these hot keys compatible with other systems. > So it sort of works, but not well enough to be usable. > Ok, you Sun guys still have some work to do on this. > > I think it's an important feature, so I hope you can get it working > soon and integrated into a Solaris Nevada release. > > I understand that you need to keep backwards compatibly for people > familiar with the old Solaris versions. But I think you also need > to give an option, at install time, for people trying OpenSolaris > for the first time, who have used Linux or FreeBSD before, > who will expect a more usable 'console'. > Thanks > Nigel > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > vconsole-discuss mailing list > vconsole-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/vconsole-discuss
