Solaris Live Upgrade for the first time - with bugs
I switched from FreeBSD to OpenSolaris a few weeks ago. Today I tried the Live Upgrade for the first time, upgrading from snv_70 to snv_72. And while I was happy to see the new system booting had trouble with accessing my cd/dvd-rom drive. After trying this and that and asking on the irc channel I got the hint that I ran into a bug in b72.
Mounting my old root and copying the ata driver to the upgraded root did do the trick then.
Besides having some trouble caused by that bug I really like that live upgrade functionality in Solaris.
I am yet looking forward to explore more on this operating system. At work I have to play around with a 2-node Sun Cluster holding an Oracle RAC at the moment. That's really fun!
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Welcome to OpenSolaris!
Thank you! :)
And even with this kind of problem, you always had the option to go back to b70 while you were tracking down the issue. This ability saved me from having a off-line server on couple of occasions.
Thanks for making available your experiences. I had a similar "wow, that was neat" experience the first time I did a LU. It really minimizes downtime considerably.
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