Re: upgrade to Solaris 10 11/06 fails - problems with mirrored disks


Matthias Ernst wrote:
I am trying to upgrade a SunFire V880 machine from Solaris 01/06 to
Solaris 11/06 using a custom jumpstart profile. The upgrade fails
with the following error message:
Processing profile
metainit: <servername>: there are no existing databases
ERROR: The specified root and/or boot was not found or was not upgradeable
Solaris installation program exited.
The machine has a mirrored / /usr and /var filesystem. I followed the work-
arounds described in the release notes for 11/06 and removed the mirror
from root but this did not help. I also tried deleting the / metadevices
and removed all the mirrored disks from /etc/vfstab but this did not
change the error message.
When I try to run metastat from the shell of the miniroot after mounting
the real root on /a, I get the same error message. However, if I look in
/etc/lvm I find the correct entries for the databases. The machine has
a relatively large number of state data bases (25).
I just upgraded a SunFire V890 with a very similar configuration without
problems after removing the / mirror. The main difference is that the
V880 was upgraded from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 01/06 while the V890 was
an initial install of Solaris 10 01/06.

Does the Sol 10 box have swap on slice 0?
Think that bollocks up upgrades with S/W mirror...

Is there a workaround to upgrade this machine to Solaris 10 11/06? I would
like to avoid a fresh install which is always a lot more work and more
downtime since this is a SunRay server.

If the above be true yes - by reslicing the broken side of a mirror : <
and copying swapping etc. Lengthy. Hope Im wrong

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