I have some confusion over the version of the Solaris Kernel I am
running.  The base install is Solaris 10u4.  Having conversations with
Sun they are stating that even though I have installed Solaris 10
update 4, after I apply patch clusters it is essentially the same as
upgrading to the latest update.  I have included the output of /etc/
release and uname =96a.

The reason I am asking, is I am in the middle of a recovery using a
Solaris 10u7 CD and I need to re-install the bootblk, and not sure if
I need the same version as my ufsdump image.

Thanks!


                       Solaris 10 8/07 s10s_u4wos_12b SPARC
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SunOS  5.10 Generic_139555-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise

In article <845b4ded-4d38-4514-bf6f-5a2d1829fd5a@d34g2000vbm.googlegroups.com>,
SJW  <donsroute-email@yahoo.com> wrote:
>The reason I am asking, is I am in the middle of a recovery using a
>Solaris 10u7 CD and I need to re-install the bootblk, and not sure if
>I need the same version as my ufsdump image.
[snipped]
>SunOS  5.10 Generic_139555-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise

You're running kernel update 139555-08.

You can ufsrestore and then run the restored version of
installboot(1M) if you're not sure of any incompatibilities.

John
groenveld@acm.org