1600 series - encounter kernel panic when reverting to partitions from volumes

K.... the instruction in that uri work... with one caveat - I installed 11.2.0 to a volume. I was left with a situation where there was no default boot image:

 

 

Current boot image:

 

HD1.3 - title BIG-IP 10.2.1 Build 297.0

 

Default boot image:

 

No locations are marked as 'active' volumes.

 

Available boot image(s):

 

HD1.1 - title BIG-IP 10.2.1 Build 511.0

 

HD1.2 - title BIG-IP 11.2.0 Build 2446.0

 

HD1.3 - title BIG-IP 10.2.1 Build 297.0

 

 

 

I then ran through the procedure outlined in sol13926 and received the following error:

 

/var/tmp/addmos /shared/images/BIGIP-11.2.

 

warning: copy failed (/var/tmp/0E0SqoUtNQ/mfg.pattern.sh): No such file or directory

 

info: No MOS update necessary; system has 2.7.4 - 42.0, media has 2.7.4 - 42.0

 

 

So, the MOS had already been updated with the install of 11.2.0. A grub_default -d confirms this:

 

title TMOS maintenance

 

root (hd0,0)

 

kernel /vmlinuz.mos root=/dev/ram0 rw console=ttyS0 ramdisk_size=135136.5 skip_media

 

initrd /initrd.img.mos

 

TIC_STATIC_KEY: st.mos

 

TIC_STATIC_VERSION: 2.7.4-42.0

 

 

I told the device to load 10.2.1 and format to partitions like so:

 

image2disk --format=partitions BIGIP-10.2.1.297.0.iso

 

 

And, hey presto, it worked!

 

lvscan

 

**** no output ****

 

switchboot -l

 

 

Current boot image:

 

HD1.1 - title BIG-IP 10.2.1 Build 297.0

 

Default boot image:

 

HD1.1 - title BIG-IP 10.2.1 Build 297.0

 

Available boot image(s):

 

HD1.1 - title BIG-IP 10.2.1 Build 297.0

 

 

 

Thanks for the update, good to know.