Corrupt boot-archive? Don't panic :-)

One of my Solaris 10 (update 05) servers runs on a piece of HP hardware, which seems to have some sort of memory error which every now and then causes the box to panic.
After a panic today, the system wouldn't boot, instead it complained about the boot-archive being corrupt, and its gzip-checksum being incorrect.
To solve it i booted into the failsafe mode, which worked, from there i mounted the /a partition and tried to run:
bootadm update-archive -R /a
which returned without any errors within a second. However it didn't actually update the boot archive.
My guess is that the boot-archive (which seemed of a reasonable size) was so corrupted that the bootadm update-archive couldn't read it, and apparently, if it cant be read, it wont return any error nor fix it.
I also tried to move the old boot_archive to a new location and re-run bootadm update-archive, but that didn't work either since the archive didn't exist.
The solution in the end was to rename the boot-archive:
mv /a/platform/i86pc/boot_archive /a/platform/i86pc/corrupt_b_archive
and then reboot the machine into failsafe-mode again, upon booting into failsafe mode a second time, it discovered that the disk didn't have a boot-archive, and created one for me.
After this i just had to reboot and now the system booted normally.
Hope this helps someone someday.. :-)
.7/M.

Thanks for the info. One question: I've tried to boot to failsafe several times on two different machines running Solaris 10 u8 x86 on HP hardware, but it never works. I have /var as a separate data set - does your system? I seem to remember a bug mentioned where this is a problem with /var as a separate dataset?

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{code}
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[code]
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