[indiana-discuss] 'pkg image-update' experience and confusion

[Tao Chen]

Hi,

I just upgraded 2008.05 (VB guest on WinXP) to snv_90 with 'pkg
image-update'.

First 3 attempts failed, last one was a timeout error, even with
PKG_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=90.
I am in Beijing, 1MB ADSL (capable of 150KB/sec download speed), but
connection to pkg image server is apparently poor.

Upgrade finally succeeded with PKG_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=200:

(I use ksh93 for root, as a real user account)

# PKG_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=200 pkg image-update
DOWNLOAD                                    PKGS       FILES     XFER (MB)
Completed                                534/534 13974/13974 1174.16/1174.16

PHASE                                        ACTIONS
Removal Phase                              3117/3117
Update Phase                             13877/13877
Install Phase                              5852/5852
A clone of opensolaris exists and has been updated and activated. On
next boot the Boot Environment opensolaris-2 will be mounted on '/'.
Reboot when ready to switch to this updated BE.

According to the last message, opensolaris-2 is my new BE.

'beadm list' command returned three entries:
# beadm list

BE            Active Active on Mountpoint     Space
Name                 reboot                   Used
----          ------ --------- ----------     -----
opensolaris   yes    no        legacy         1.55M
opensolaris-2 no     yes       -              4.70G
opensolaris-1 no     no        /tmp/tmpjsiWMC 578.5K

I think opensolaris-1 was created during a failed attempt earlier? Can I
delete it?

Then I run:

# mount -F zfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-2 /mnt

# /mnt/boot/solaris/bin/update_grub -R /mnt
Creating GRUB menu in /mnt
Installing grub on /dev/rdsk/c4d0s0
stage1 written to partition 0 sector 0 (abs 16065)
stage2 written to partition 0, 264 sectors starting at 50 (abs 16115)

# reboot

After reboot, I was greeted by four entries, with the last one selected by
default:

OpenSolaris 2008.05 snv_86_rc3 X86
opensolaris-1
opensolaris-2
Solaris 2008.11 snv_90 X86  <-

That is confusing - where did the last one come from? and why is it
called "Solaris
2008.11" ?
I tried last two entries, results are the same.

# uname -a
SunOS Indiana 5.11 snv_90 i86pc i386 i86pc

# beadm list

BE            Active Active on Mountpoint     Space
Name                 reboot                   Used
----          ------ --------- ----------     -----
opensolaris   no     no        -              56.97M
opensolaris-2 yes    yes       legacy         4.71G
opensolaris-1 no     no        -              578.5K

In menu.lst, the difference between last two entries are (kernel$, module$
omitted):

#============ End of LIBBE entry =============
title opensolaris-2
bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-2
#============ End of LIBBE entry =============
#---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ----------
title Solaris 2008.11 snv_90 X86
findroot (pool_rpool,0,a)
#---------------------END BOOTADM--------------------

So the last entry was added by bootadm.
Can I remove opensolaris-1 and opensolaris-2 from grub?

Thanks & regards,
Tao
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