Recap: Live Upgrade with ZFS root using SXCE (Nevada/OpenSolaris)

This is just a follow up to my previous blog entry "Live Upgrade with ZFS root using SXCE (Nevada)". I thought I would just do a quick recap, since I wanted to add a couple of points. For the full example and the output which is expected see the above entry.

Live Upgrade

1. Preparation

# lofiadm -a /export/iso/sol-nv-b99-x86-dvd.iso
/dev/lofi/1
# mount -o ro -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt
# pkgrm SUNWluu SUNWluzone SUNWlur SUNWlucfg
# pkgadd -d /mnt/Solaris_11/Product SUNWlucfg SUNWlur SUNWluu SUNWluzone


2. Create a new boot environment
• If this is your first live upgrade then use this command (-c Assigns a name to the current current Boot Environment)

# lucreate -c b97 -n b99
# lucurr
b97

• Otherwise if you have done live upgrades before you do not need -c
  

# lucreate -n b99

3. Check it

# lustatus

Boot Environment           Is       Active Active    Can    Copy
Name                       Complete Now    On Reboot Delete Status
-------------------------- -------- ------ --------- ------ ----------
b95a                       yes      no     no        yes    -
b97                        yes      yes    yes       no     -
b99                        yes      no     no        yes    -

4. Upgrade
   

# luupgrade -u -n b99 -s /mnt
# zfs list


NAME                      USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
rpool                     151G  77.5G    41K  /rpool
rpool/ROOT               32.2G  77.5G    18K  legacy
rpool/ROOT/b95a          88.7M  77.5G  12.4G  /tmp/.alt.luupdall.6066
rpool/ROOT/b97           27.8G  77.5G  11.1G  /
rpool/ROOT/b97@20080820  7.77G      -  9.51G  -
rpool/ROOT/b97@b97       8.57G      -  12.4G  -
rpool/ROOT/b97@20080916  64.9M      -  10.9G  -
rpool/ROOT/b97@b98       14.7M      -  11.1G  -
rpool/ROOT/b99           4.34G  77.5G  11.2G  /tmp/.luupgrade.inf.6336
rpool/dump               2.97G  77.5G  2.97G  -
rpool/export              113G  77.5G  43.6G  /export
rpool/export/home        69.1G  77.5G  69.1G  /export/home
rpool/swap               2.97G  78.7G  1.75G  -

5. Make it your default boot enviroment

# luactivate b99

6. Reboot. WARNING must use init command

# init 6

Trouble Shooting:

• - Error about mount point not empty during a live upgrade or after:

i.e.

ERROR: cannot mount '/.alt.tmp.b-nnb.mnt/': directory is not empty
or
cannot mount '/export/home': directory is not empty

This is most likely that there is a file or directory in this location or a mount point already exist.

Check only current system mounted (NO /.alt.. or /export/home) and then do some cleaning up (WARNING: before doing the "rm -ir" make sure you are happy delete these files)
# df -F zfs
/ (rpool/ROOT/snv_98 )
/export (rpool/export )
/export/home (rpool/export/home )
/rpool (rpool )

# zfs unmount /export/home
# ls -adR /.alt.tmp.b-nnb.mnt /export/home
# rm -ir /.alt.tmp.b-nnb.mnt /export/home
# zfs unmount /export
# ls -adR /export
# rm -ir /export

# zfs mount /export
# zfs mount /export/home
or
# lumount NV95
# luunmount NV95