Solaris 10 6/06 OS Deployment on a Sun Fire X4500 Server Requires a Profile (6379990)

Deploying Solaris 10 6/06 OS on a Sun Fire X4500 Server requires a special profile. You cannot choose any random disks. The system needs to be booted first either from the factory installed OS or from a CD-ROM to determine the server's correct boot disk.

To discover the correct boot disk, perform the following steps:

1. Open a terminal window.

2. Find the first bootable disk by typing

   #cfgadm | grep sata3/0

   You should see a message similar to the following example.

   sata3/0::dsk/cXt0dY

   Where X and Y are numbers, for example, c4t0d0.

3. To find the second bootable drive, perform either of the following actions:

   Increment 0 by 4. For example, if the first drive is c4t0d0, then the second drive is c4t4d0.

   Or type the command: #cfgadm | grep sata3/4

   You should see a message similar to the following example.

   sata3/4::dsk/cNtNdN

   Where N is a number, for example, c4t1d0.

4. Proceed through the install using the information in Step 2 and Step 3 and apply it to the server's OS profile.