Solaris 10 installation hangs at filesystem preparation stage

Question

Dear all,
I am facing problems trying to configure Solaris 10 which was preinstalled on a Sun Ultra 45 workstation.
Passing the network configuration stage (some errors included) the installation simply hangs while trying to prepare the filesystem, here are the messages I got:
runCmd error in /usr/sbin/sysidput with output
Unable to run cmd /usr/sbin/sysidput
System identification complete.
mv: cannot access /a/lib/svc/method/fs-root.orig
Please wait while filesystems are prepared...
The installation hangs here. I left the process running overnight, but nothing happened, I had to open a new console and shutdown the system. This behaviour is 100% reproducible. Now I will try getting the CDs for installation.
How can I find out what is happening?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hey all,
rukbat was right - I put the pressure on the Sun frontline support, and got a Sun backline response, below.
Thanks for the encouragement rukbat! - it paid off.
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Engineering provided us with a workaround for this problem.
And our backline team have confirmed this works.
The workaround is to restore /lib/svc/method/fs-root to slice 0. Here's how:
Boot from slice 1 into single-user mode:
ok boot disk:b - shell
Mount slice 0 on /a. Replace c1t0d0s0 with the appropriate disk address on your machine.
# mount /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 /a
Copy fs-root from slice 1 to slice 0:
# cp -p /lib/svc/method/fs-root /a/lib/svc/method/
Optionally, you can check to see if a filesystem was created on slice 3. Again, replace c1t0d0s3 with the correct address on your system.
# df -k /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s3
If you don't see a valid usage report such as
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s3 217369929 9 215196192 0%
go ahead and use newfs to install a filesystem:
# newfs /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s3
newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s3: (y/n)? y
You can now reboot from slice 0:
# reboot -- disk:a
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Michael.