Solaris 9 U7 (2004/09) MultiLayered Flash Archive issue + solution ?

Question

In Solaris 9 Update 7 (2004/09) the multilayered flash archive installation feature is broken.
I think that this is a known issue:
4945516 Failure of multi-layered archive with Solaris 9 4/03 on Postdeployment process
I manage to flash my archives by changing the following statement found at line 24 of the file
../Solaris_9/Tools/Boot/usr/lib/flash/postdeployment_processing
from
if [ ! -L $FLASH_ROOT/etc/rc2.d/S98flash_reboot ] ; then
to
if [ -L $FLASH_ROOT/etc/rc2.d/S98flash_reboot ] ; then
This issue is addressed in the patch 113434-22
113434-22/SUNWinst/reloc/usr/lib/flash/postdeployment_processing
But the if statement is not the good one.
Is this correct ?
Coco D.

Answer 1

Ideas.. Hmm, none which seems that correct, but you could try some things.
If it gets the wrong IP that could explain why it fails to copy the sysidcfg file.
First you could try and do a snoop on the ethernet address;
snoop ether 0:3:ba:14:c6:cd
(you could also try the -v flag to increase the verbosity).
The things you should look for are arp/rarp requests, the jumpstart client will use arp/rarp to determine its IP address, snoop will show you which server that responds, and what address it gets, futher more its a good idea to verify that the response to the bootparams requests comes from the correct server.
Of course there might be other oddnesses as well.
Was the data you provided extracts? If it was you should check the /etc/ethers and /etc/bootparams for duplicates entries, so there are no other occourances of the clients ehternet address in /etc/ethers, and no bogus entries starting with * or the same hostname in /etc/bootparams.
If you added the client manually you could always try and use the Tools/rm_install_client and Tools/add_install_client scripts to add it again, these script sometimes detect problems with the configuration.
Lastly you didn't show us your /etc/nsswitch.conf file, but i assume that it has "files" first for the ethers, hosts and bootparams entries?
Good luck
//Magnus