I am trying to install Solaris 9 on our sun fire 280R using web start flash archive.
The master system is a Sun fire v480 and has it root file system mirrored using Sun’s disk suite. Both “Machine A” and “Machine B” have the same number of disks and of the same size

The flash archive was created from master system (machine A) using flarcreate like

Flarcreate –n puffin-20070629 –x /proc –x /var/run –x /home –x /clone –R / -S –c /clone/puffin-20070629.flar

I then NFS export to image to the clone machine (machine B)

On “machine B” from the OK prompt, I boot from cdrom like

Ok boot cdrom – w

When prompt for a media type I entered “Network file System”

Unfortunately when “Machine B” finishes extracting the archive it panics.
“Machine B” was running fine before trying to “Web flash installation”
Can you help please?

Here is the error message
NFS moon:/free/puffin/puffin-20070704.flar
Root Device: c1t0d0
File Systems:
c1t0d0s0 / 53603 MB
c1t0d0s1 swap 16387 MB preserved

Enter 'y' to accept these values and start the installation, or 'n' to
return to disk selection to make changes (y/n): y

Installing...

Extracting archive(s)
|-1%--------------25%-----------------50%-----------------75%--------------100%|

Pausing for 90 seconds at the "Summary" screen. The wizard will continue to
the next step unless you select "Pause". Enter 'p' to pause. Enter 'c' to
continue. [c]

<Press Return to reboot the system> {"!" exits}
[]
syncing file systems... done
rebooting...
Resetting ...Probing system devices
screen not found.
keyboard not found.
Keyboard not present. Using ttya for input and output.
Probing system devices


Sun Fire 280R (2 X UltraSPARC-III+) , No Keyboard
Copyright 1998-2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.16.4, 8192 MB memory installed, Serial #52689333.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:23:f9:b5, Host ID: 8323f9b5.



Rebooting with command: boot
Boot device: /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/disk@w21000004cfa6efa2,0:a File and args:
SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_117171-17 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Cannot mount root on /pseudo/md@0:0,0,blk fstype ufs

panic[cpu0]/thread=140a000: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root

0000000001409970 genunix:vfs_mountroot+70 (0, 0, 0, 200, 14581b0, 0)
%l0-3: 000000000144bc00 000000000144bc00 0000000000002000 0000000001495468
%l4-7: 000000000149b000 0000000001411e68 000000000144c400 000000000144f400
0000000001409a20 genunix:main+90 (1409ba0, f005bebc, 1409ec0, 34dd7c, 2000, 500)
%l0-3: 0000000000000001 000000000140a000 0000000001412fd8 0000000000000000
%l4-7: 0000000078002000 0000000000350000 00000000014a3840 0000000001066748

skipping system dump - no dump device configured
rebooting...
Resetting ...Probing system devices
screen not found.
Rebooting with command: boot
Boot device: /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/disk@w21000004cfa6efa2,0:a File and args:
SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_117171-17 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Cannot mount root on /pseudo/md@0:0,0,blk fstype ufs

panic[cpu0]/thread=140a000: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root

0000000001409970 genunix:vfs_mountroot+70 (0, 0, 0, 200, 14581b0, 0)
%l0-3: 000000000144bc00 000000000144bc00 0000000000002000 0000000001495468
%l4-7: 000000000149b000 0000000001411e68 000000000144c400 000000000144f400
0000000001409a20 genunix:main+90 (1409ba0, f005bebc, 1409ec0, 34dd7c, 2000, 500)
%l0-3: 0000000000000001 000000000140a000 0000000001412fd8 0000000000000000
%l4-7: 0000000078002000 0000000000350000 00000000014a3840 0000000001066748

Can you help? please

Thanks

Hi hassan,
at the beginning of your post you tell us that the system you create the flash is a system with root mirroring.
This should be the problem, because so far I no the md (metadb -a)description is on additional slices.
But this slice is not inside the flash archive.
Due too this fact you are not able to find the root partition on your client system and the result is a system panic.

Best regards
joerg