March 26, 2010 at 3:25 am
64-bit laptop with 4GB RAM, Windows 2008 R2 Standard, Hyper-V R2, VM with Windows 2008 R2 Standard with 1024 MB memory allocated and 3 x 20 GB drives, SQL 2008 Standard.
I successfuly installed SQL 2008 on the VM, noting the warning at the outset of the install that SP1 must be installed before SQL can be run.
I have tried several times to install SP1 - but it always hangs at the first rule check. It can only be interrupted in Task Manager.
I have downloaded a fresh copy of SP1 and tried - same outcome.
I am unable to find a similar report in Google.
Help!
Tim T.
March 26, 2010 at 4:20 am
March 26, 2010 at 8:58 am
Well...my first honest response was "What difference will that make?" but I'm the newbie here, so I tried it.
I haven't tried to manually extract the contents of the SP1 .EXE to find the core SETUP.EXE so I used that very long .EXE name rather like this:
thatverylong.exe /ACTION=Upgrade /INSTANCENAME="Instance" /INSTANCEID=MSSQLSERVER" /ISSVCACCOUNT="NT Authority\NetworkService"
This whistled through the opening rule but eventually stopped with:
"SQL Server Setup has encountered the following error:
The specified action Upgrade is not supported for the SQL Server patching operation.
Error code 0x84BF0007"
So - further than before but still not sucessful.
Right now, courtesy of a snapshot in Hyper-V, I am going back to install SQL 2008 and the Books Online so that I may investigate further...
Thanks for your help so far!
Tim T.
March 26, 2010 at 9:05 am
March 26, 2010 at 9:49 am
Stand down...
With SQL 2008 reinstalled, this time with BOL, I ran the SP1 .EXE ... and it ran through to completion.
Tada!
Personally, I hate problems which "go away" because I can't say what caused them or say that they won't recur. For now, however, I have a SP1'ed SQL 2008 server for my VM farm. Whoopee!
Tim T.
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