Latest round of patches on fabric booted system causes Solaris 10 to hang

I have a fairly stock install of Solaris 10 6/06 on a T2000 which uses a Emulex HBA to boot from Xiotech SAN attached disks.
I installed the following patches:
118712 14 < 16 R-- 24 SunOS 5.10: Sun XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator Patch
120050 05 < 06 RS- 28 SunOS 5.10: usermod patch
120222 16 < 17 R-- 19 SunOS 5.10: Emulex-Sun LightPulse Fibre Channel Adapter driver
120629 02 < 08 R-- 24 SunOS 5.10: libpool patch
120824 08 < 09 R-- 39 SunOS 5.10: SunBlade T6300 & Sun Fire (T1000, T2000) platform patc
121118 11 < 12 R-- 21 SunOS 5.10: Sun Update Connection System Client 1.0.9
122660 08 < 09 R-- 17 SunOS 5.10: zones patch
124258 03 < 05 RS- 19 SunOS 5.10: ufs and nfs driver patch
124327 -- < 04 R-- 34 SunOS 5.10: libpcp patch
120222 16 < 17 R-- 19 SunOS 5.10: Emulex-Sun LightPulse Fibre Channel Adapter driver
When I rebooted the system it will no longer boot up.
If I do a {ok} boot -m milestone=none and attempt to start all the services by hand, I see:
svc:/platform/sun4u/mpxio-upgrade:default (Multipath upgrade)
State: offline since June 4, 2007 4:05:58 PM CDT
Reason: Start method is running.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-C4
See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M stmsboot
See: /etc/svc/volatile/platform-sun4u-mpxio-upgrade:default.log
It appears the mpxio-upgrade script is failing to start.
If I run /lib/svc/method/mpxio-upgrade by hand the script hangs and can not be killed. Since I am on console the only want to recover is to send-brk and reboot. I truss'ed it and the last device it was trying to read is:
82: open("/devices/pseudo/devinfo@0:devinfo", O_RDONLY) = 5
82: ioctl(5, 0xDF82, 0x00000000) = 57311
This is the second time this has happened in the last 2 months. The first time the problem was resolved with a new kernel patch. However Sun could not tell me what the exact problem was.
Has anyone else run into SAN/Fabric booted servers failing to boot after various patches?

We have discovered the problem. It has nothing to do with SAN booting at all. It has to do with having a device plugged into the serial port. I was using this system to act as serial console for another device in the same rack. When the Sun kernel engineering asked me to unplug the serial cable and reboot I was skeptical, but it worked.
Sun has filed this as a bug. The only work around right now is to make sure you have nothing plugged into the serial port.

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    I want to apply HRMS Legsliation patches for Australia (AU)...
    These are the steps which i want to follow
    (a) For AU, if I want to apply the Latest HR Global Patches, I need to have my HR PF should be in 11i.HR_PF.K and RUP1....So I will apply the these patches
    (b) Next Apply the GLOBAL Patches 6196112, 6339534,6348219
    (c) Next download AU Legsliative patch 6071863
    (c) Next run the DATA Install
    (d) Next Apply HRGLOBAL.drv
    Is the above steps correct..please suggest

    (a) For AU, if I want to apply the Latest HR Global
    Patches, I need to have my HR PF should be in
    11i.HR_PF.K and RUP1....So I will apply the these patchesFYI, 11i.HR_PF.K.DELTA.2 is available (Patchset 5337777)
    (b) Next Apply the GLOBAL Patches 6196112, 6339534,6348219 In case you decided to go with (Patchset 5337777 - 11i.HR_PF.K.DELTA.2), then you would need to apply Patch: 6242856 - HRGLOBAL: SCHEMA AND DRIVER GLOBAL FILES FOR 11I.FP.K.RUP2
    Other than that, your steps look fine.

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