I've searched around but i'm having no luck with some peculiar behavior with a flash archive.
I'm using HP Server Automation 9.14 to deploy the OS.
I'm creating a Solaris 10 flash archive to create a snapshot default build in our environment.
I create the flash archive with
# flar create -c -S -n g8-solaris10-u10 g8-solaris10-u10.flar
It seems to create the file without any problems (exit status 0).
When deploying to a new system (same hardware), it extracts to a point and then bails.
The last error in the log I can see is Extracted 2047.00 MB ( 82% of 2488.98 MB archive)
ERROR: Could not read file (172.27.118.100:/media/opsware/sunos/flar/g8-solaris10-u10.flar
ERROR: Errors occurred during the extraction of flash archive. The file /tmp/flash_errors contains the list of errors encountered
ERROR: Could not extract Flash archive
ERROR: Flash installation failed
The error log contained the following message
cannot receive new filesystem stream: invalid backup stream
A previous version of this flash archive (1.8gb) worked ok, so I suspect size may be a factor.
The source system (the one the flash archive is an image of) is an HP BL460C GEN8 some more info below.
OS version Info
# uname -a
SunOS testhostname 5.10 Generic_147441-01 i86pc i386 i86pc
# who -r
. run-level 3 Oct 15 08:15 3 0 S
disks
# echo | format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 17841 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,3c06@2,2/pci103c,3355@0/sd@0,0
Specify disk (enter its number): Specify disk (enter its number):
zpools
# zpool list
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP HEALTH ALTROOT
rpool 136G 24.6G 111G 18% ONLINE -
Zones
# zoneadm list -cv
ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP
0 global running / native shared
The file size of 2047 seems suspiciously close to 2048, which is concerning.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
