Trying to donwgrade from v11.2.1 to v10.2.2 (on a BIG-IP 6900 system), the appliance does not boot correctly.

Romain,

My only suggestion would be to run an EUD and do a diags test to see if it points to a specific issue. You might then need to engage the resources at F5 support I'm afraid (in which case they'll no doubt as for a EUD report).

Others on DC may have better clues.

HTH,

N

Thank you for your answer Nathan.

I will try to do so.

Romain

did you install version 10 while running 11? or are you trying to go back to an earlier installed version 10? did you change the hdd partitioning scheme from partitions to volumes? might be that is causing the issue now.

anyway if you got a support contract, use it now.

I am currently working on a lab environment. I was running v10.2.2 and then I upgraded to v11.2.1. Now I want to go back to the 10.2.2 to reproduce an issue which occured on a production environment. I was already using LVM with v10.

Thanks for your time.

interesting, if that is all checked off i wouldnt know how to proceed except for contacting support.

Ah! Exactly what I experienced before. See https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/most-stable-current-v11-release .

Thanks everybody for your answers. I am still working on this issue.

I am trying to make a clean install from v10.2.2.

Using a DVD, i get the result below :

info: Initializing partition table on disk: hda debug: creating steamboat ptable hda: hda1 hda2 hda3debug: No style controls for steamboat info: Adding boot partition to disk: hda info: adding hda.dat.boot... debug: tm_install::Volume::Volume_add -- name=hda.dat.boot, size=0, fstype=b debug: tm_install::DosPtable::DosPtable_get_all_devices -- current = 1 debug: tm_install::Volume::Volume_fs_part -- disk=hda, index=1, type=b, label=dat.boot.1 debug: tm_install::Device::Device_make_fs -- Calling: /sbin/mkfs.msdos -n dat.boot.1 /dev/hda1 info: Adding swap partition to disk: hda info: adding hda.dat.swap... debug: tm_install::Volume::Volume_add -- name=hda.dat.swap, size=0, fstype=82 debug: tm_install::DosPtable::DosPtable_get_all_devices -- current = 1 debug: tm_install::Volume::Volume_fs_part -- disk=hda, index=2, type=82, label=dat.swap.1 info: adding hda.dat.dbvg... debug: tm_install::Volume::Volume_add -- name=hda.dat.dbvg, size=0, fstype=8e debug: tm_install::DosPtable::DosPtable_get_all_devices -- current = 1 debug: tm_install::Volume::Volume_fs_part -- disk=hda, index=3, type=8e, label=dat.dbvg.1 debug: tm_install::DiskArray::DiskArray_autojoin -- No fixed scsi disks found; no array created. info: Creating standard volumes for hda info: Creating standard volumes for cpmirror info: tm_install::Process::Process_add_std_volumes -- Using cpmirror for volume sets. error: tm_install::MultiVolume::MultiVolume_size_scheme -- array cpmirror has no members present info: adding cpmirror.dat.share, size 0... error: tm_install::MdArray::MdArray_volume_add -- requested multi-disk, cpmirror, has no members present. error: MultiVolume_add cpmirror.dat.share failed.

Using a USB key, i get the result below :

info: Initializing partition table on disk: hda hda: hda1 hda2 hda3info: Adding boot partition to disk: hda info: adding hda.dat.boot... info: Adding swap partition to disk: hda info: adding hda.dat.swap... info: adding hda.dat.dbvg... info: Creating standard volumes for hda info: Creating standard volumes for cpmirror info: tm_install::Process::Process_add_std_volumes -- Using cpmirror for volume sets. error: tm_install::MultiVolume::MultiVolume_size_scheme -- array cpmirror has no members present info: adding cpmirror.dat.share, size 0... error: tm_install::MdArray::MdArray_volume_add -- requested multi-disk, cpmirror, has no members present. error: MultiVolume_add cpmirror.dat.share failed. Installing with command: image2disk --format=volumes --nosaveconfig --nvlicenseok /usbrma/images/BIG-IP/BIGIP-10.2.2.763.3.iso

info: Expert mode enabled for non-TMOS context. info: Repository tm_install version/release is 2.7.0/487.0 info: System tm_install version/release is 2.7.1/23.0 info: Platform id is Gemini start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,63,32) found (190,120,0)end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,63,32) found (544,125,44)start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,63,32) found (1010,16,43)end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,63,32) found (205,205,22)start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,63,32) found (252,139,46)end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,63,32) found (367,195,2)start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,63,32) found (0,10,0)end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,63,32) found (0,0,0)Terminal error: Could not find a Volume Set to retrieve configuration and/or license from. at /usr/sbin/image2disk line 146.umount: /usbrma: device is busyumount: /usbrma: device is busy

WARN: Error unmounting USB flash drive.

Please remove the USB flash drive from this device and press enter to reboot.

i think you may need to open a support case.