Systems Might Hang on First Reboot After Installing With Solaris Web Start Program on Solaris 9 9/02 Installation CD (4717581)

If you use the Solaris^TM Web Start program on the Solaris 9 9/02 Installation CD to install the Solaris 9 9/02 operating environment, the system might hang on the first reboot after the installation.

Workaround: To avoid this problem, choose one of the following workarounds.

• Use the Solaris 9 9/02 Software 1 of 2 CD to install the Solaris 9 9/02 operating environment.

• If you use the Solaris 9 9/02 Installation CD to install the Solaris 9 9/02 operating environment, follow these steps.

  1. Insert the Solaris 9 9/02 Installation CD in your CD-ROM drive and begin to install the Solaris 9 9/02 operating environment.

  2. Write down the name of the disk slice when the following message is displayed.

     Disk slice disk-slice-name will be used to accommodate a temporary copy of the Solaris installation software. After the files are copied, the system will reboot and the installation will continue. Please Wait...

  3. Interrupt the installation by pressing Stop-A or by power cycling the system.

     The system displays the ok prompt.

  4. Boot the system from the Solaris 9 9/02 Installation CD in standalone mode.

     ok boot cdrom -s

  5. In a terminal window, type the following ls command to determine the physical name of the disk slice you wrote down in step 2.

     # ls -l /dev/dsk/disk-slice-name

     This command returns output similar to the following text.

     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Aug 14 16:56 /dev/dsk/disk-slice-name -> ../../devices/physical-name

  6. Write down the physical name of the disk slice. Omit the leading text ../../devices from the physical name

  7. Halt the system to return to the ok prompt.

     # halt

  8. Boot the system from the physical device by typing the following command.

     ok boot /physical-name