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No Luck with a Quick-n-Dirty BFU of SXCE 79 on EC2

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For grins, I tried a quick-and-dirty BFU of a SXCE 79 instance running on EC2 to the latest nightly build this morning. I roughly followed Ben Rockwood’s BFU instructions and didn’t do anything to resolve conflicts beyond running acr. On reboot, it looks like the system panicked – I presume the reason is probably somewhere in here. Console dump after the jump for the curious.
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Written by Andy

June 25th, 2008 at 7:19 am

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Capacity limit on OpenSolaris 2008.05 AMI

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I missed this: Apparently the OpenSolaris 2008.05 AMI on EC2 has reached a capacity limit. So, while I got Sun’s approval this morning for their OpenSolaris/SXCE.79 on EC2 beta, I don’t get to use OpenSolaris until they add more capacity; SXCE.79 is a nice consolation prize, though.

Written by Andy

June 4th, 2008 at 11:27 am