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Operating Systems Solaris Problems cloning Solaris 10 x86 Installation to bigger HDD Post 302750841 by hicksd8 on Wednesday 2nd of January 2013 03:25:12 PM
Old 01-02-2013
As with any O/S you need to write out a bootblock (or boot loader) to the starting sectors of the (raw) disk. You didn't mention that so I assume that you haven't done it?

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installboot(1M)                                                                                                                    installboot(1M)

NAME
installboot - install bootblocks in a disk partition SYNOPSIS
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The installboot utility fails if the bootblk or openfirmware files do not exist or if the raw disk device is not a character device. 11 Apr 2005 installboot(1M)
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