Comment 17 for bug 239458

Hi, I have a Sun E420R running gutsy and as is it approaching EOL, I would like to upgrade it to hardy so I can get LTS support. However, I did attempt this once and it had disastrous results. It would seem the upgrade took, but upon rebooting the server, about half way through the startup, the console started to display garbled characters, couldn't even SSH to it and rendered it useless. I ended up having to re-install gutsy and restore the server from backups. I would really enjoy doing an upgrade and have it work like it should, thus I have been scared to make any attempt at it again. I guess my question is, has there been any luck with doing a successful upgrade from gutsy to hardy on sparc64 arch? As I stated before, I (and I am sure many others) would like to upgrade before gutsy goes EOL, but would like to do so with confidence it will work as it should. Thanks.