SUMMARY: Ultra2 not booting after 2.6->8 upgrade

From: Koef <koef_at_notsupported.org>
Date: Tue Jun 13 2006 - 16:42:38 EDT
Original question below. Most people suggested to update OBP firmware, but
this wasn't the problem. The Solaris 2.6 machine has mirrored bootdisks
using SDS, and although I broke the mirror before I upgraded to Solaris 8, I
didn't actually metacleared all the metadevices. Instant filesystem
corruption began after booting the Solaris 8 system as a result. I restored
from tape and will retry the upgrade.

Thanks to all who took the time to respond.

-- 
Koef.


On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 11:39:42PM +0200, Koef wrote:
> I just upgraded an Ultra 2 from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 8. After the final
> reboot, I get:
> 
> | rebooting...
> | Resetting ... 
> | 
> | screen not found.
> | Can't open input device.
> | Keyboard not present.  Using ttya for input and output.
> 
> | Sun Ultra 2 UPA/SBus (UltraSPARC-II 296MHz), No Keyboard
> | OpenBoot 3.7, 512 MB memory installed, Serial #9696311.
> | Ethernet address 8:0:20:93:f4:37, Host ID: 8093f437.
> |
> | Rebooting with command: boot
> | Boot device: disk  File and args: 
> 
> And it just sits there. After 5 minutes I sent a "break", boot net from the
> install server I upgraded from, and I can see the bootdisk just fine with
> "format". I also tried to reinstall the bootblocks with "installboot
> /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0" to no avail.
> "probe-scsi" in OBP detects all the disks just fine.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Koef.
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