Jumpstart ZFS root issue

UNIX Solaris
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I 'm tryin to install a solaris server After all the system initialization & extraction of flash archive installation aborts with following error ..

Does anyone know what could be the issue for the same ?
Any help would be appreciated


        Extracted 2205.05 MB ( 99% of 2205.54 MB archive)
        Extracted 2205.54 MB (100% of 2205.54 MB archive)
        Extraction complete

ERROR: Setting property on pool rpool failed

ERROR: Flash installation failed
Solaris installation program exited.
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which solaris version do you use? zfs flashinstall was first supported with update 8 if i remember right.

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i 'm using flash archive from sol10 u9 and i have installed at least 40-45 servers with same flash archive .. which includes ldoms also

4

ok. which property do you try to set?

ERROR: Setting property on pool rpool failed
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I do not know which property i 'm trying to set up .. m giving you my profile file which again i have used for other servers with same flar


install_type       flash_install
archive_location   http://10.63.25.180/flashdir/GDCu8.flar
partitioning       explicit
pool rpool auto auto auto any
bootenv installbe bename zfsBE

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Moderates please close this thread i got this working.

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for the use of all, please state what the problem was...

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Hi DukeNuke2,

As you had mentioned in couple of posts earlier the error was due to EFI label .. the installation process was trying to set the property for bootfs .. i imported the zfs rpool and then try to set it but somehow the system was taking the disk as EFI labelled and you know very well that ZFS root only works on SMI label disk.

Thanks

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