[pca] liveupgrade x86 and GRUB problem

[Gael Martinez]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Roland Soderstrom <
rolands at logicaltech.com.au> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I used liveupgrade for the first time today and run into a problem.
> This is a Solaris 10 U7 x86 host.
>
> I used the PCA instructions after creating the ABE
>
> Live Upgrade
>
> PCA can be used in combination with Live Upgrade to analyze or install
> patches in an inactive boot environment. Use *lumount* to mount the BE and
> PCA's *--root=DIR* option to set the alternative root directory:
>
>   lumount BE_name
>   pca --root=/.alt.BE_name --install
>   luumount BE_name
>
> When you're done patching, activate the new BE and reboot with *init 6*.
>
> In the instructions for LiveUpgrade in MOS I need to select the new BE in
> the GRUB menu upon boot.
> I DON'T have a console to this x86 host, so I can't choose the new BE in
> the GRUB menu as described in MOS.
> Searched for an answer how to do this but can't find any, the docs says I
> shouldn't manually edit menu.lst.
> And looking in the lumounted filesystem the new BE is not in there anyway
> (after doing luactivate)
>
> How do I solve this? (without going to the computer room 20km away and hook
> up a console to the server)
>
> - Roland
>


Have you looked at /boot/grub/menu.lst  ?


-- 
Gaël Martinez
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