xen discuss - Nov 2007 - live upgrade and xvm...

Hi,

I have an x86 box with two boot disks.  Each disk contains a BE, 
and I upgrade from one to the other.  When trying to do a lumake 
from 75 to 76, and again from 76 to 77 I have the following error 
from lumake:

ERROR: The system must be rebooted after applying required patches.
Please reboot and try again.
ERROR: Cannot make the boot environment.

I only get this error if I''m booted with the xen kernel, and I 
workaround it by booting "regular" Solaris.  My grub entry for 
xvm looks like this:

title xvm_76
root (hd0,0,a)
kernel$ /boot/$ISADIR/xen.gz
module$ /platform/i86xpv/kernel/$ISADIR/unix 
/platform/i86xpv/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -k
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive

The problem seems to stem from the fact that the output of 
prtconf -v doesn''t contain a line with ''biosdev'' if
booted under
xvm, which is why lumake works on regular Solaris.

I''m happy to file a bug if this isn''t just me being
boneheaded.
My only question is what''s the correct cat/subcat.

-- 
John Wren Kennedy
Solaris RPE

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:28:02PM -0700, John Wren Kennedy wrote:
> I have an x86 box with two boot disks.  Each disk contains a BE, 
> and I upgrade from one to the other.  When trying to do a lumake 
> from 75 to 76, and again from 76 to 77 I have the following error 
> from lumake:
> 
> ERROR: The system must be rebooted after applying required patches.
> Please reboot and try again.
> ERROR: Cannot make the boot environment.
> 
> I only get this error if I''m booted with the xen kernel, and I 
> workaround it by booting "regular" Solaris.  My grub entry for 
> xvm looks like this:
This is a known problem and a bug is filed - see the docs on opensolaris.org

regards
john

John Levon wrote:
> This is a known problem and a bug is filed - see the docs on
opensolaris.org
Thanks John.  I''ve added a record to "6623684 LU does not work 
with xVM kernels"

-- 
John Wren Kennedy
Solaris RPE