06-07-2012
Apologies if I'm about to state the obvious stuff that you already know but let's cover a few facts here.............
The branded zone can share a network interface with the global zone or it can be configured to have exclusive use of an interface. It would seem that whatever interface the branded zone is requesting at boot time, it is requesting exclusivity and the global zone is already using it so an error results.
I would suggest that you use zonecfg to list what interfaces the global and branded zones think you've got and reconfigure to eliminate conflict.
Another thought is that Solaris decides what interfaces to configure by the existence of /etc/hostname.<interface> files (eg. /etc/hostname.nxge0).
You haven't said whether your branded zone is on its own filesystem or not but if you can get at it then look for these file(s). Renaming them temporarily should stop Solaris trying to configure the network interfaces and therefore get the system on its feet. (Easier to troubleshoot once the system is up???) You could also look at /etc/hostname.<interface> files on the global and see what that thinks its got.
Hope that helps.
---------- Post updated at 12:57 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:21 PM ----------
Also, you didn't say how you got into this position. What command(s) did you use to try and configure the interfaces?
If you think that you messed up your zone configuration you could try restoring everything under /etc/zones on global. This will put your zone config back to the way it was. (Rename the existing zones directory, don't delete anything)
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