Finally managed to upgrade to snv_77

What a complete freakin’ pain these last few days have been!I’d no sooner gotten snv_75a installed on the ultra20 in preparation for xVM-ification, than snv_77 ISOs were released, so I pulled those down and tried the live-upgrade path.Part of the rationale for building up on the ultra20 (rather than my u20m2) is that the u20m2 was so crufty that I really couldn’t do an LU without serious pain.Unfortunately I came across a number of problems with the LU process from snv_75a to snv_77:6628378 snv_77 upgrade installation fails to update grub menu.lst file, still refers to previous version`6628268 snv_75a with non-global zones refuses to allow LU `_\ `6627736 snv_75a sys-unconfig and zone bringup gives “#” for choice of Language and Locale`_6628272 biosdev is still broken, even with nv_sata-attached disks in Sun hardwareNone of which appear to have made it through the firewall into Openness .. image:: /images/smilies/icon_sad.gif

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Suffice to say that I wasted many hours trying to figure out wtf was going on with the LU before I twigged to having to remove my non-global zones, and then once I did get everything fixed up again, I’d managed to leave my punchin certificates on the other environment.Sigh.At least I’ve had the chance to get 77 installed. Once I’ve got a few spare cycles (probably later in the week) I reckon it’ll be fun to play with the in-kernel CIFS service and perhaps xVM.