Solaris 9 Upgrade Installation Hangs

From: Tim Bingham (binghamt_at_upstate.edu)
Date: 11/18/05

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    Greetings all,

    I am trying to upgrade the OS on a SunFire V480 from Solaris 8 2/02
    to 9 9/04 using a Solaris 9 system software CD set. I previously
    successfully upgraded a V100 with the same OS versions using these
    CDs so I'm pretty confident they're okay.

    I booted the CD, went through the identification steps, then the next
    output looked like this:

    System identification complete.
    Generating software table of contents [this may take a few minutes...]
    Table of contents complete.
    Starting Solaris installation program...
    Executing JumpStart preinstall phase...
    Searching for SolStart directory...
    Checking rules.ok file...
    Using begin script: install_begin
    Using finish script: patch_finish
    Executing SolStart preinstall phase...
    Executing begin script "install_begin"...
    Begin script install_begin execution completed.

    The system then hangs. The hard disks activity lights blink, but it
    never continues with the next steps.

    The V480, except for the hardware, is nearly identical to the V100
    that I already upgraded. We use the V100 as a test bed for
    applications on the V480 so I try to keep it as close as possible.

    Since my first attempt, I have applied patches suggested by the
    analysis from PatchPro I installed, and tried the installation
    without identifying a DNS server (as suggested by the first Sun
    Support engineer I spoke with), but it still hangs.

    I am not using a Jumpstart server, just trying to upgrade off of the
    CD. The two drives in the V480 are mirrored using Disksuite 4.2.1
    just like the ones in the V100 that worked fine.

    Any ideas, please? I've searched the list archives and found a couple
    others who posted with a similar problem, but solutions were never
    posted. Sun Support has moved this up a step from the first engineer
    I spoke with, but they haven't yet come up with any suggestions. Any
    help would be much appreciated.

    Regards,
    Tim

    Tim Bingham
    Upstate Medical University
    Syracuse, NY
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