If you use the flarcreate command to create a Solaris Flash archive and use the default pax copy option, the installation of the archive fails on a Sun4v system. The archive failure occurs during the retrieval of the archive. This failure affects the T1000 model only.
The following error message is displayed.
Extracted 710.00 MB ( 33% of 2142.61 MB archive) Extracted 711.00 MB ( 33% of 2142.61 MB archive) Extracted 712.00 MB ( 33% of 2142.61 MB archive) Extracted 713.00 MB ( 33% of 2142.61 MB archive) Extracted 714.00 MB ( 33% of 2142.61 MB archive) Extracted 715.00 MB ( 33% of 2142.61 MB archive) Extracted 716.00 MB ( 33% of 2142.61 MB archive) (This hangs and will never complete) |
Workaround: Create the archive by using the -L cpio option. See the following example:
# flarcreate -n test.flar.sun4v.cpio -L cpio -c /net/server/export1/rw/test.flar.sun4v.cpio |