Re: Problem upgrading from Solaris9 to Solaris10

In <a26b594e-3d80-4d9e-9bad-092707c34b7d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usenetpersongerryt@xxxxxxxxx writes:

On Mar 27, 9:13 am, Konstantinos Agouros <elw...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am trying to upgrade a Solaris9 installation to Solaris10. I try to
do that using Jumpstart and this finishes with the installer claiming
it did not find any upgradable filesystems. I also tried an interactive
install and wasn't even offered an upgrade. Hardware I am trying this
on is a SunFire V210. Could anybody give me a clue how to upgrade?

Hmm 9-10 should be OK..
Unfortunately the upgrade process can fail for seemingly inexplicable
reasons.
Once I found that having swap on slice 0 and root/swap mirrored with
metainit was enough to throw the upgrade process completely off.
The workaround was to "fix" one half the mirror at a time - a rather
convoluted process.
As a result, now I always make sure slice 0 is / and slice 1 is swap
on new disks : /
You may have to do a full backup and fresh install. Sorry, but it may
be quicker in the end.
Just for "fun" you could do a prtvtoc on the boot disk
I ran through a few iterations:

First the whole system was mirrored but I already deactivated that.
By now I did a new install of Sol9 on a single disk to verify the behaviour,
but still no luck. Since it is just a test system / is c0t0d0s0 and
swap c0t0d0s1 and the mirrors have been on the 0 and 1 partitions
as well.

Cheers,

Konstantin

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