Re-preinstall

I have recently purchased a remanufactured Ultra 10 with preloaded software. During bootup I recevie the following prompt: "re-preinstall needs to be re-run". How is this accomplished?

Hi
What is the full error message that you are getting, it should be
something like this:
NOTICE: can't find driver for console frame buffer
fsck of /tmp/devices/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0:
failed, re-preinstall needs to be rerun
Normally if this happens you would have to re-install a new O.S.
version.
-Manish

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