If you upgrade to the Solaris 8 1/01 or 4/01 operating environment and you have Solaris Management Console (SMC) 1.0, 1.0.1, or 1.0.2 installed, you must uninstall SMC before you upgrade. SMC 2.0 is not compatible with any previous version of SMC. SMC may exist on your system if you installed the SEAS 2.0 overbox, the SEAS 3.0 overbox, or the Solaris 8 Admin Pack.
Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds.
Before you upgrade, run /usr/bin/prodreg and perform a full uninstall of Solaris Management Console.
If you did not uninstall SMC 1.0, 1.0.1, or 1.0.2 before you upgraded you must remove all SMC 1.0, 1.0.1., or 1.0.2 packages. It is critical that you use pkgrm for package removal instead of prodreg and that the order of package removal is carefully followed. Follow these steps.
Become superuser
In a terminal window type the following command.
# pkginfo |grep "Solaris Management Console" |
The package names in the output will identify an SMC 1.0 package if the description does not start with "Solaris Management Console 2.0."
Use pkgrm to remove all instances of SMC 1.0 packages in the following order.
Do not remove any package that has "Solaris Management Console 2.0" in the description. For example SUNWmc.2 might indicate SMC 2.0.
If the pkginfo output displays multiple versions of SMC 1.0 packages, use pkgrm to remove both packages, beginning with the original package and then the package that has been appended with a number. For example, if the SUNWmcman and SUNWmcman.2 packages appear in the pkginfo output, first remove SUNWmcman and then SUNWmcman.2. Do not use prodreg.
# pkgrm SUNWmcman # pkgrm SUNWmcapp # pkgrm SUNWmcsvr # pkgrm SUNWmcsvr # pkgrm SUNWmc # pkgrm SUNWmcc # pkgrm SUNWmcsws |
In a terminal window type the following command.
# rm -rf /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWmcapp |
SMC 2.0 should now function. For future maintenance, or if SMC 2.0 does not function properly, it is recommended to remove SMC 2.0 and re-install it by following the next steps.
In a terminal window type the following command.
# pkginfo |grep "Solaris Management Console" |
The package names in the output will identify the remaining SMC packages installed on your system.
Use pkgrm to remove all Solaris Management Console 2.0 packages in the following order.
If there are multiple instances of SMC 2.0 packages, such as SUNWmc and SUNWmc.2, first remove SUNWmc, and then SUNWmc.2. Do not use prodreg.
# pkgrm SUNWdclnt # pkgrm SUNWmga # pkgrm SUNWmgapp # pkgrm SUNWmcdev # pkgrm SUNWmcex # pkgrm SUNWwbmc # pkgrm SUNWmc # pkgrm SUNWmcc # pkgrm SUNWmccom |
Insert the Solaris 8 Software (INTEL Platform Edition) 1 of 2 CD into your cdrom drive and type the following in a terminal window.
# cd /cdrom/sol_8_401_ia/s0/Solaris_8/Product# pkgadd -d . SUNWmccom SUNWmcc SUNWmc SUNWwbmc SUNWmcex SUNWmcdev SUNWmgapp SUNWmga SUNWdclnt |
All previous versions of SMC are now removed and SMC 2.0 will be functional.
The locale support installation mechanism has changed in the Solaris 8 operating environment. In the Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, and 7 operating environments, the level of locale support installed depended on the software cluster chosen. The Solaris 8 operating environment includes a new installation interface that prompts you to select specific geographic regions for which you require locale support. Therefore, you can customize the configuration of your system at installation of the Solaris 8 operating environment with more freedom than in the Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, and 7 operating environments.
Notice especially the following behaviors:
You must select the locales to be installed during the initial installation in the Geographic Selection screen. C (POSIX locale) and en_US.UTF-8 (Unicode support) are the only locales that are automatically installed.
When you upgrade from previous releases, some of the locales are automatically selected depending on the available locales on the system to be upgraded. Note that English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish partial locales were always present on the system in the Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, and 7 operating environments.
Unicode locales (UTF-8) have a feature to enable multilingual text input. Because these locales use Asian input methods that are provided by each individual locale, install those Asian locales for which you need to type text.
If you attempt to install a large partition (one that extends beyond the 8–Gbyte boundary) on a disk that uses any of the controllers listed next, the installed system does not behave properly.
The Solaris operating environment installation program cannot detect that the driver does not support large partitions. The installation continues without displaying an error. However, when you reboot your system, the reboot may fail.
Even if you successfully reboot your system, it will fail later because of other changes related to boot devices or added packages. The disk controllers associated with these drivers are:
Symbios 53C896–based controllers (symhisl)
AMI MegaRAID controllers (mega)
Compaq 53C8xx-based SCSI controllers (cpqncr)
Workaround: Do not install a large partition that extends beyond the first 8 Gbytes of a disk on systems that have disk controllers driven by the symhisl, mega, or cpqncr drivers.
The Solaris 8 operating environment includes a new feature that enables you to install large partitions. The DPT PM2144UW controller's BIOS must support Logical Block Addressing (LBA). The latest revision of the BIOS fully supports LBA access. The problem can also affect other DPT controller models.
Workaround: Prior to upgrading your system to the Solaris 8 operating environment, ensure that the DPT PM2144UW controller's BIOS is the latest available version from DPT.
To determine if your system has a DPT controller, perform the following steps:
Run the prtconf -D.
If the name dpt is displayed, run the card's configuration utility to obtain information about the model and BIOS revision.
Upgrade DPT PM2144UW controllers by flashing the BIOS or by installing the latest BIOS EPROM obtained from DPT. See http://www.dpt.com for the latest BIOS images for all DPT controllers.
You can now upgrade the system to the Solaris 8 operating environment.
The Solaris 8 operating environment includes a new feature that enables you to install large partitions. The system BIOS must support Logical Block Addressing (LBA). BIOS Version GG.06.13 does not support LBA access. The Solaris boot programs cannot manage this conflict. The problem can also affect other HP Vectra systems.
If you perform this upgrade, your HP system will no longer boot. Only a blank black screen with a flashing underbar cursor is displayed.
Workaround: Do not upgrade HP Vectra XU Series systems with the latest BIOS Version GG.06.13 to the Solaris 8 operating environment because it no longer supports these systems.
You can still boot your system using the boot diskette or boot CD because the boot paths do not use the hard disk code. Then select the hard disk as your bootable device instead of the network or CD-ROM drive.
By default, the Solaris ata device driver has the DMA feature disabled for ATA/ATAPI devices. Installing the Solaris 8 operating environment works properly with DMA disabled.
To enable the DMA feature for improved performance, see Direct Memory Access (DMA) Is Disabled On PCI-IDE Systems in the Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) 4/01 Release Notes on the Solaris 8 4/01 Documentation CD.