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Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library |
Part I Upgrading With Live Upgrade
1. Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information
4. Using Live Upgrade to Create a Boot Environment (Tasks)
5. Upgrading With 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 Live Upgrade Boot Environments (Tasks)
8. Upgrading the Oracle Solaris OS on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed
Part II Upgrading and Migrating With Live Upgrade to a ZFS Root Pool
10. Live Upgrade and ZFS (Overview)
11. Live Upgrade for ZFS (Planning)
12. Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools
13. Live Upgrade for ZFS With Non-Global Zones Installed
A. Live Upgrade Command Reference
C. Additional SVR4 Packaging Requirements (Reference)
This chapter explains how to recover from an activation failure.
Note - This chapter describes 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 12, 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: