Summary: Flar/Fash installation - The file just loaded does not appearto be executable.

From: Ostrowski, Tomasz (NSN - CN/Shanghai) <tomasz.ostrowski_at_nsn.com>
Date: Tue Aug 25 2009 - 14:56:19 EDT
Hi,

Thanks every one for reply.
Finally after many tries and experiments I've figured out what is going
on:
Every time I've been creating a  flar archive it was over 5GB...
I've compared 2 systems the current one, and another one which was
created from very similar archive.
The only meaningful difference was size.
I decided to remove packages and patches that I've stored in /var/tmp
for the installation (I didn't do this earlier because I was in hurry
and just performed the flar creation)
Finally my flar image has size:
# ls -l sun4v.flar
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     3873630475 Aug 26 02:00 sun4v.flar

The earlier flar of working system have : 4647995016

So I assume that the safe size is somewhere below 5GB.

Have you experienced such limitation?
I tried to find out sth on the Suns manuals and on google, but there is
nothing about it....
Maybe if I will have some strength tomorrow I will experiment with "-L
pax"

Regards
Tomek

Tomasz Ostrowski
Nokia Siemens Networks
OPS Integrated OEM and Digital Supply
Mobile(temporary): +49 15 222 4353 11

Hello All,

At the firs time when I saw the message:

Boot device: /pci@780/pci@0/pci@9/scsi@0/disk@1,0:a  File and args:
Boot load failed.
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.

I thought - my flar is corrupted so I've created another one, this is
what I do:

-Installing Solaris from DVD 08/07
-installing additional packages (java perl, firefox.....)
- boot -s
- installing Patch Cluster:
	NAME: Solaris 10 Recommended Patch Cluster
	DATE: May/13/08
-reboot -- -r
-boot -s
- installing additional patches:
116837-03
118666-16
118667-16
118777-12
119044-03
119059-44
119059-45
119115-34
119213-17
119252-22
119280-17
119470-13
119548-12
119725-05
119757-12
119783-06
119783-07
119900-05
120094-21
120272-21
121308-14
122212-26
122239-03
122911-13
123005-07
123186-03
123630-03
124020-04
124171-07
125416-06
125719-12
125719-13
125952-17
126147-02
126674-01
126868-02
127737-02
127853-02
127890-11
128300-04
128306-05
128330-02
128491-01
136716-01
136839-01
136892-01
136998-05
137000-03
137017-03
137019-02
137032-01
137080-01
137091-01
137093-01
137111-06
137289-01
138042-02
138060-04
138070-03
138075-02
138083-01
138112-01
138116-01
138118-01
138120-01
- reboot -- -r
- init 1
- flarcreate -n MY_FLAR -S -c -x /export/home/rel -a tomasz.ostrowski
/export/home/flar/MY_FLAR.flar

No errors (except /etc/mttab but this is not impoortant).
Full Flash
Checking integrity...
Integrity OK.
Running precreation scripts...
Precreation scripts done.
Creating the archive...
cpio: File size of "etc/mnttab" has decreased by 138
15071363 blocks
1 error(s)
Archive creation complete.
Running postcreation scripts...
Postcreation scripts done.

Running pre-exit scripts...
Pre-exit scripts done.


Do you have any idea?

Master system is T2000 2hdd + dvd and the second/client system is the
same HW...

I've booted also from newer Solaris from 10/08 Sol DVD and perform the
flash installation, no results.

I tried to load boot cdrom -s and install boot block but it is also not
helping
I've also tried like described here
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5096474 (last post) no
results.


Anny suggestions what can be wrong with this?

Tomasz Ostrowski
Nokia Siemens Networks
OPS Integrated OEM and Digital Supply
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