OK, latest in a loooong trail of errors with no information. I've finally gotten a new BE created on another drive, run liveupgrade on it to bring it from sol10u3 to sol10u8
Not as of yet, actually I reran luupgrade a couple of times, the original 699 not installed dropped to 330 then 302 then 301... About to give luactivate / init 6 a shot...
WARNING: <302> packages failed to install properly on boot environment <1stLU>.
INFORMATION: The file </var/sadm/system/data/upgrade_failed_pkgadds> on
boot environment <1stLU> contains a list of...