Solaris 10(x86) u4 8/07 Upgrade Install trashes disk label

In 4 attempts now to upgrade a working Solaris 10(x86) u2 6//06 system to Solaris 10 8/07 the upgrade fails. If the system reboots at the end of the upgrade, the system is stuck at the grub prompt. When options are set to NOT reboot at the end of the install, inspection of the system produces:
- I/O errors with df command for /a and /a/var (see next point for why)
- using format command to inspect partition table reveals that an "effectively empty" label with zero length slices for s0,s1,s3-s7 has been written to the disk effectively trashing the installation and the previously defined partition layout.
This upgrade failure occurs if using a non-upgraded 6/06 install or a fully updated install. The 6/06 install is partitioned with partitions for /, swap, /var, and /export/home. The system I am trying to upgrade is a test system (laptop with 768MB) and is basically a fresh install of 6/06. I am trying to define and validate the procedure to upgrade a 6/06 system to 8/07.
I have not explored using Live Upgrade yet as I suspect the same problem will occur to the target if the fault lies in the installer on the DVD.
Has anyone experienced this issue and can anyone point me in the right direction to remedy this failure?

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