Installation guide

x86: Serial Consoles of Some Sun Fire Systems Do Not Work (6208412) ............................. 32
Solaris Installation GUI Program Might Fail on Systems With Existing x86 fdisk Boot
Partitions (6186606) .................................................................................................................... 32
Installation Bugs .................................................................................................................................. 33
x86: GUI Installation Fails on Systems With Lesser Than 768 MB Memory ........................ 33
SPARC: DSR Upgrade Might Cause System Failure (6883262) ............................................. 33
Installation Fails if /var Has Just Minimum or Recommended Disk Space (6873975) ...... 34
DSR Upgrade Fails Due to Auto-Layout Problem (6858233) ................................................. 34
System Panic Due to lgrp_* Functions During OS Installation (6834743) ......................... 35
Localized Installation Note ......................................................................................................... 36
SPARC: WAN Boot Installation Fails for Solaris 10 10/09 ...................................................... 36
x86: Solaris Flash Archive Installation Fails on Releases Before the Solaris 10 10/08 Release
(6735181) ...................................................................................................................................... 37
SPARC: Using WAN Boot Program to Directly Boot From Installation Media Fails
(6734066) ...................................................................................................................................... 38
Some Asian Locales Cannot Be Used for Custom JumpStart (6681454) .............................. 38
PRODRM Has Problems Deleting prodreg Entry For Solaris Trusted Extensions
(6616592) ...................................................................................................................................... 39
x86: NVidia SATA Controllers Do Not Support ATAPI Devices (6595488) ........................ 39
Sun Upgrade Detailed Patch Analysis Panel Not Scrollable (6597686) ................................. 40
Keyboard Layout Needs to be Selected Even Without a Keyboard Attached (6593071) ..... 40
Panic in PCIe as dev_info Node Has No Parent Data (6517798) .......................................... 40
The Linux Partition Does Not Display on the GRUB Menu After Installing the Solaris OS
(6508647) ...................................................................................................................................... 41
x86: Install Hangs on Systems With 512 Mbyte of Memory (6423854) ................................. 42
x86: Invalid /sbin/dhcpinfo Error During Installation (6332044) ...................................... 42
x86: Installation From CD Media Appears to Hang After Reboot Selection (6270371) ...... 43
x86: System Fails to Boot After Custom JumpStart Installation (6205478) .......................... 44
Upgrade Issues and Bugs .................................................................................................................... 44
Audio Devices Unavailable After Upgrade on Solaris Trusted Extensions Systems
(6866818) ...................................................................................................................................... 45
SUNWsmbar Removes the /etc/services and /etc/inet/services Files During
Upgrade (6756546) ...................................................................................................................... 45
shutdown Command Might Cause the System to Hang After Upgrade (6751843) ............. 46
lucreate and lumake Commands Fail to Create a Copy of a Non-Global Zone Which Is
Not in Running State (6659451) ................................................................................................. 46
SPARC: Upgrading with Solaris Live Upgrade From Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 Releases Fails
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Solaris 10 10/09 Release Notes • October 20094