@jzu see you on the list too, will engage there

@jzu --> looks like you actually encountered an ACTUAL bug. See #illumos for more, and I'll keep the list-thread posted.

jzu: you're still booting with GRUB then aren't you?

Yeah, I'll swap the current image as old by hand in that case. Usually been just running the upgrade-platform script :)

Okay. If you're interested, however, there's a bahamat-written script to move your GRUB USB key over to a Loader USB key. And since you're on a Turion II box I'll bet you're BIOS-booting anyway, so if your disk geometry isn't insane you can convert your zones pool to booting. (Or you can pick some other random internal disk, create it as as a bootable pool, and do it that way.)

(Sorry I'm biased to disk-booting.)

Regardless, if you got the PI update script on your GRUB key working, giving you a PI will still Just Work for you.

Thanks for your patience on this jzu. I have to leave now, but might be back late-night US/Eastern.

it's raidz on 4 disks so cannot deatch enough disks to move stuff over, it's too full at the moment :)

but yeah if I could convert it into bootable pool that would be neat, or even try the grub > loader for start

danmcd: thanks a lot - not in a hurry as this is not production, just want to get Solaris 11 up and running in VM so I can netinstall a T2000 and deploy some Sun Ray's for the fun of it.

ah right the platform-upgrade script supports custom url and local file for example:

platform-upgrade -u file:///tmp/platform-20180510T153535Z.tgz -s file:///tmp/md5sum.txt

jzu: raidz is a bootable pool.

(unless you have l2arc or slog devices, which isn't impossible but just more annoying).

just pure raidz

ah dang, I'd need Solaris 11.3 AI ISO-image for my netboot install to succeed.. damn you Oracle, you can get full Solaris 11.3 but AI ISO is behind MOS :)