Problem during booting the zone

Question

There is the problem:
-bash-2.05b# zoneadm -z apache1 boot
zoneadm: /zone/apache1/root/dev: No such file or directory
zoneadm: zone apache1 failed to verify
after installing the zone apache1 contents of /zone/apache1/root:
-bash-2.05b# ls
lib opt platform sbin usr var
everything is made using the article: http://www.blastwave.org/docs/Solaris-10-b51/DMC-0002/dmc-0002.html
? Thx.

Answer 1

Two questions:
1) Which build are you running?
2) Did you ready the zone?
This article at BlastWave was written within two weeks of Zones debut (he beat me to the punch!).
Since then a new step as been interjected. You should setup your zones in the following manner:
Create the zone like always (eg: zonecfg -z my_zone "create ; set zonepath=/export/zones/my_zone ;
set autoboot=true ; add net ; set address=10.0.0.1 ; set physical=hme0 ; end ; verify ; commit ; exit").
Then install the zone like always (zoneadm -z my_zone install) and wait till it completes. Now you
need to ready the zone (zoneadm -z my_zone ready) and then boot it (zoneadm -z my_zone boot).
Login to the zone ala "zlogin -C my_zone" and away you go.
Readying is a step I don't recall needing to do on older builds, but in B58 onward you must.
benr