Bad patch 118844-30

Question

Just wondering if no one else is having issues with the Sun kernel patches?
A month ago we tried to install 118844-28, which failed to install see http://forum.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=28707&tstart=0
Now they release a new kernel patch, which seem to have the exact same problem.
The patch refuses to install saying that patch 117435-02 must be installed first and machine must be rebooted. The 117435-02 patch came with the installation of the OS.
From the prepatch script     #
     # biosdev failed. We can still apply the patch if the rootdisk
     # is the same as the bootdisk
     bootdev=`prtconf -v /devices | sed -n '/boot-device/{n;p;}' | grep pci | cut -f 2 -d \'`
     rootdev=`df -k ${BASEDIR:-/} | nawk 'NR > 1 { print $1 }'`
     if [ -n "$bootdev" ] ; then
          ls -l $rootdev | grep $bootdev > /dev/null
          if [ $? = 0 ]; then
               return 0
          fi
     fiRunning prtconf -v /devices will result in the following (among other things)name='bootpath' type=string items=1
            value='/pci@0,0/pci-ide@7/ide@0/cmdk@0,0:a'
name='bios-boot-device' type=string items=1
            value='80'Since they are still using sed -n '/boot-device/{n;p;}' which will return value='80' this patch will fail to install.

Answer 1

I've been trying to upgrade past 118844-26 for a while. This machine started out as a Solaris 10 x86 1/06 DVD install. I experience errors like you guys have listed here. My favorite so far was this, though:
118844-27
Executing prePatch script...
Once this KU patch is installed and you have rebooted your system,
you will not be able to patchrm this patch safely.  Once the NEWBOOT
support is installed, removing it may cause your system to not
be bootable.
Do you wish to continue this installation {yes or no} [yes]?
(by default, installation will continue in 60 seconds)
Checking installed patches...
Executing prepatch script...
Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
ERROR: One of the following may need to be corrected prior to installing this patch.
ERROR:
ERROR: The boot device may be different from the root device on biteme4.
ERROR: If you have booted from a floppy disk, eject the disk and reboot biteme4 prior
ERROR: to installing this patch.
ERROR: You may have forgotten to reboot biteme4 AFTER installing 117435-02.
ERROR: This configuration requires that 117435-02 be installed first and the
ERROR: system must then be rebooted prior to installing this patch.
The prepatch script exited with return code 1.
Patchadd is terminating.note the usage error on 'grep' ... apparently this patch had its grep arguments not quite sorted :)
I'll try the techniques posted here to see if I can move forward. Thanks for the input on this subject, folks!