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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#091FBF">There are several sources that recommend removing the boot archive before re-creating it. See below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#091FBF">But, I agree that it shouldn’t be necessary. It doesn’t seem to hurt in any way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#091FBF"><a href="http://www.seedsofgenius.net/solaris/solaris-tips-repairing-the-boot-archive">http://www.seedsofgenius.net/solaris/solaris-tips-repairing-the-boot-archive</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Pradhap Devarajan<o:p></o:p></p>
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Identity and Authentication Solutions - IT Global Solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Fred<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 05, 2012 4:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [pca] PCA w/ LU 'n boot_archive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I've never been through this procedure, and I've done a lot of patching using ZFS root on x86 with pca and live upgrade. (Thanks for the article though, I've got it nicely tucked away in case this ever happens
to me). <br>
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Your method seems sound, but I'm wondering if removing the boot-archive with rm is necessary. Doing a bootadm update-archive with the appropriate -R alternate root argument should suffice. Completely removing the boot-archive makes me nervous.
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Brookins, Neil (Philadelphia) <<a href="mailto:neil.brookins@towerswatson.com">neil.brookins@towerswatson.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">After experiencing a problem on one out of six servers, I found this page:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">which states that manual update of boot archive is needed. (See issue #2 in the blog)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So, modifying the steps shown in the first web page above, with the new revelations from the second page,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># pca -i -R /.alt.patching</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># rm -f /.alt.patching/platform/`uname -m`/boot_archive</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># luumount patching</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Can anyone confirm that I’m on the right track here? I’m using ZFS root and non-global zones. I need to use LU to reduce end-user downtime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">BTW, the problem that I experienced after rebooting to the patched server, was that it printed many errors, and then it did panic and rebooted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It seems to stay up now, but I don’t trust it as much since the panic. I’m guessing that the file /kernel/drv/ipsecah.conf was not valid due to the boot archive not getting
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The error shown below repeated, each time with a different character inside the ‘’ marks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">… savecore: [ID 570001 auth.error] reboot after panic: BAD TRAP: type=31 rp=2a10146eba0 addr=58 mmu_fsr=0 occurr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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