Trying to upgrade the lab enviroment, from 10.1.0.3341.0.1 to 11.5.3.0.0.163

Question

Hi,

Im trying to upgrade our lab enviroment from 10.1.0.3341.0.1 to 11.5.3.0.0.163, but its failing and i cannot figure out why.

root@lb01a(Active)(tmos) / sys software status
root@lb01a(Active)(tmos.sys.software.status) show

Sys::Software Status
Volume  Product  Version   Build  Active    Status
--------------------------------------------------
HD1.1      none     none    none      no  complete
HD1.2    BIG-IP   10.1.0  3341.0     yes  complete

root@lb01a(Active)(tmos) install sys software image BIGIP-11.5.3.0.0.163.iso  volume HD1.1

root@lb01a(Active)(tmos) show sys soft status

Sys::Software Status
Volume  Product  Version    Build  Active                                   Status
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HD1.1    BIG-IP   11.5.3  0.0.163      no  failed (Can't find requested disk HD1.)
HD1.2    BIG-IP   10.1.0   3341.0     yes                                 complete

MD5 checksum is OK.
The same happens when i try to go via the webgui...

Any ideas? I cant figure this one out.

Regards, Rikard

arpydays · Answer

Is sol15459 relevant to your install? Also see sol16518&nbsp;
"You cannot install BIG-IP 11.0.0 or later on BIG-IP 10.x systems that run in partitions disk format.&nbsp;
Terminal error: Can't find requested disk HD1."&nbsp;

smashytech_2187 · Answer

Im not certain, this is what the liveinstall log says
debug: tm_install::Volume::Volume_open -- name=sda.dat.boot, nw=yes, rp=(none) 
debug: new temp mount dir /mnt/tm_install/19206.ecFhCy created for sda.dat.boot 
debug: tm_install::Volume::Volume_close -- handle = /dev/sda2 
Terminal error: Can't find requested disk HD1.
*** Live install complete at 2016/02/22 09:20:24: status=65280 ***

**Also i found this in the liveinstall:**

debug: /var/tmp/install/pkgcpio/usr/sbin/image2disk: args=--reexec --verbose --verbose --verbose --instslot=HD1.1 --product=BIG-IP --version=11.5.3 --build=0.0.163 /shared/images/BIGIP-11.5.3.0.0.163.iso

info: Running updated installer. 
info: Platform id is C102 
Use of uninitialized value in sprintf at /var/tmp/install/pkgcpio/usr/local/lib/tm_install/Volume.pm line 968.

Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XML/Simple.pm line 1159.
Above repeated about 100 times....?

debug: tm_install::Volume::Volume_open -- name=sda.dat.boot, nw=yes, rp=(none) 
debug: new temp mount dir /mnt/tm_install/13062.0bhrM4 created for sda.dat.boot 
debug: tm_install::Volume::Volume_close -- handle = /dev/sda2 
Terminal error: Can't find requested disk HD1.

*** Live install complete at 2016/02/22 10:12:36: status=65280 ***
To me it looks like its getting cutoff at the dot, like 1.2 and its only interpreting it as "1."

david_stout · Answer

Upgrade from 10.1.0 to 10.2.4.
Upgrade from 10.2.4 to 11.0.0
Upgrade from 11.0.0 to 11.2.0
Upgrade from 11.2.0 to 11.5.3

You cannot directly upgrade from version 10 to anything past version 11.2 as it will fail. Try the upgrade path above and see if it works. It is a "best effort" and things may need to be manually changed in the bigip.conf file to get the config to work.

smashytech_2187 · Answer

Ok, will try that. Thank you!

smashytech_2187 · Answer

Im having the worst luck havn't I?
Im now getting :
Terminal error: create_ucs failed; No such file or directory
so its not the same errmsg..
[root@lb01a:Offline] images  df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda10             12G  154M   11G   2% /
/dev/sda12             12G   35M   11G   1% /config
/dev/sda14             12G  909M   11G   9% /usr
/dev/sda13             70G  2.2G   64G   4% /var
/dev/sda1              59G  3.9G   52G   7% /shared
/shared/.LoopbackLogFS
                      2.0G   55M  1.9G   3% /var/log
none                  2.0G  320K  2.0G   1% /dev/shm
none                  2.0G  8.9M  2.0G   1% /var/tmstat
prompt                4.0M   12K  4.0M   1% /var/prompt
none                  2.0G  704K  2.0G   1% /var/run

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