Trying to clone an old V240 (sun4u) onto a new T2000 (sun4v).
Managed to create a flar on the V240. Worked out that you need to add the sun4v architecture to the flar (-U "content_architecture=sun4u,sun4v" in the flarcreate).
Anyway, copied that to spare 2nd disk on my target T2000. Booted from DVD, selected flash install and this time it recognised the flar as valid.
All seemed to go ok but now it wont boot because its complaining about boot archive. any ideas?
Cloning can be quite tricky. Often the disk devices which are restored are all wrong for the new platform. However, if it's the boot archive that the system is complaining about then update that first. Boot archive architecture wasn't used after Solaris 10u3 so I guess your version is 10u3 or earlier.
Boot from CD and mount your harddisk root filesystem under /a
then.....
Then take the system down. On first attempted boot from hard disk ensure you use the -r switch to tell Solaris to reconfigure.
Post the results of that. As I said above, we might need to rebuild all filesystem devices.
Thanks. Didnt try that. What I did try though was to run the install from CD again this time selecting upgrade.
Worked this time or at least booted ok. Only problem with this method is it removes all the OS patches not on the CD.
Final problem then was network interfaces. It seemed confused about these.
Ran sys-unconfig and sorted that out.
Now seems to working ok. Just got patches to re-install.
If I do again, might try your method also.
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Originally Posted by hicksd8
Cloning can be quite tricky. Often the disk devices which are restored are all wrong for the new platform. However, if it's the boot archive that the system is complaining about then update that first. Boot archive architecture wasn't used after Solaris 10u3 so I guess your version is 10u3 or earlier.
Boot from CD and mount your harddisk root filesystem under /a
then.....
Then take the system down. On first attempted boot from hard disk ensure you use the -r switch to tell Solaris to reconfigure.
Post the results of that. As I said above, we might need to rebuild all filesystem devices.
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