Hi,
Install PIT discovered a problem on SPARC that in some circumstances
could caues boot loader installation to fail on SPARC.
This is also a potential issue for X86 systems. Due to the severity I'd
like to, if at all possible, get this fix into build 13.
7158052 - Installation fails due to installboot returned unexpected exit
status 4 in s11u1_13.
There are 2 webrevs: one for build 13 and one for build 14.
The difference is that the b14 webrev is a subset of the b13 fix. The
reason for that is that in build 14 we switched to using pybootmgmt to
handle boot loader installation on both X86 AND SPARC, whereas upto
build 13, we handled SPARC boot loader setup directly.
For b13, the installboot(1M) needs to be passed the "-f" switch to force
boot loader installation, and when using pybootmgmt for X86,
commit_boot_config() needs to be passed the "force=True" arg val.
For b14 we just need to carry forward the "force=True" arg val when
invoking commit_boot_config()
Webrevs:
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Build 13:
http://jurassic.us.oracle.com/~npower/webrevs/webrev-force-bootblck-b13/
Build 14:
http://jurassic.us.oracle.com/~npower/webrevs/webrev-force-bootblck-b14/
I've built build 13 DC SPARC and X86 ISO images incorporating the fix.
Seth has confirmed that they fix the problem.
He has also already reviewed the webrev and given this a +1
Thanks,
Niall
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