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Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning |
Part I Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade
1. Where to Find Solaris Installation Planning Information
2. Solaris Live Upgrade (Overview)
3. Solaris Live Upgrade (Planning)
4. Using Solaris Live Upgrade to Create a Boot Environment (Tasks)
5. Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade (Tasks)
SPARC: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment
SPARC: To Fall Back Despite Successful New Boot Environment Activation
SPARC: To Fall Back From a Failed Boot Environment Activation
SPARC: To Fall Back to the Original Boot Environment by Using a DVD, CD, or Net Installation Image
x86: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment
x86: To Fall Back Despite Successful New Boot Environment Activation With the GRUB Menu
x86: To Fall Back From a Failed Boot Environment Activation With the GRUB Menu
x86: To Fall Back From a Failed Boot Environment Activation With the GRUB Menu and the DVD or CD
7. Maintaining Solaris Live Upgrade Boot Environments (Tasks)
8. Upgrading the Solaris OS on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed
9. Solaris Live Upgrade (Examples)
10. Solaris Live Upgrade (Command Reference)
Part II Upgrading and Migrating With Solaris Live Upgrade to a ZFS Root Pool
11. Solaris Live Upgrade and ZFS (Overview)
12. Solaris Live Upgrade for ZFS (Planning)
13. Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools
14. Solaris Live Upgrade For ZFS With Non-Global Zones Installed
B. Additional SVR4 Packaging Requirements (Reference)
This chapter explains how to recover from an activation failure.
Note - This chapter describes Solaris Live Upgrade for UFS file systems. The usage for the luactivate command for a ZFS boot environment is the same. For procedures for migrating a UFS file system to a ZFS root pool or creating and installing a ZFS root pool, see Chapter 13, Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools.
If a failure is detected after upgrading or if the application is not compatible with an upgraded component, fall back to the original boot environment by using one of the following procedures, depending on your platform.
For SPARC based systems:
For x86 based systems: