Thursday, February 28, 2013

Solaris 11 update with Oracle support repo

Was having lots of problem doing pkg update on Solaris 11 (SRU 7.5)

The whole download and creating of BE will work and then bootadm will fail, and won't be able to boot into new BE.

Solution: update to SRU10.5 first
pkg update --accept entire@0.5.11,5.11-0.175.
Then update pkg:
pkg update pkg:/package/pkg
Then only do the patch proper to update to Solaris 11.1
pkg update --be-name s11.1ga --accept

Crossing my fingers hoping it works.