Solaris Express 3/06 Issues

The following issues apply to the Solaris Express 3/06 release.

x86: Upgrade Option Is Not Available When Upgrading to Solaris Express 3/06 OS (6386504 )

The upgrade operation fails when upgrading the OS to the Solaris Express 3/06 OS as follows:

• For the Solaris installation program, the upgrade option is unavailable.

• For the custom JumpStart^TM program, the upgrade fails.

This problem is due to an unused boot partition that must deleted. The problem occurs under the following circumstances:

• You have performed an initial installation from the Solaris 8, 9, or 10 3/05 release. An x86 boot partition was created during installation.

• You have performed an initial installation from the Solaris 10 1/06 release or Solaris Express release that supports GRUB. The x86 boot partition is preserved, but is not used.

• You try to upgrade to the Solaris Express 3/06 OS.

The following error will be in/tmp/install_log:

# more /tmp/install_log
kdmconfig:  The following warning was noted:
Error while executing loadkeys command.
Checking c1d0s0 for an upgradeable Solaris image.
The x86 Boot fdisk partition is missing /a/boot/solaris/bootenv.rc

Workaround:

• If you are upgrading with the Solaris installation program, delete the unused boot partition using the format or fdisk command. Repartition before you upgrade.

• If you are upgrading with JumpStart, specify the disk that contains the root (/) file system to be upgraded with the root_device keyword. For example, the profile would contain the following keywords.

  • install_type upgrade

  • root_device c1t0d0s0

Some Keyboard Layout Names in kdmconfig Have Changed (6372842)

Some of the keyboard layout names used by kdmconfig have changed. If one of these changed names is selected, the keyboard layout does not correctly set. The following error message is displayed:

From kdmconfig:
keyboard-layout-name> unknown layout name
Please refer to 'kbd -s' to get the supported layouts.
Error while executing loadkeys command.
Press Return to continue

The error occurs with the following keyboard layouts listed by kdmconfig:

• Czech

• French-Canadian

• Greek

• Hungarian

• Latvian

• Lithuanian

• Polish

• Russian

Workaround: After running kdmconfig and selecting one of the affected layouts, perform the following steps:

1. Log in as superuser.

2. Issue the command # kbd -s.

   The kbd -s command displays valid keyboard layouts.

3. Select the desired layout.