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Bug #11850
openbootadm fails to install boot block on SPARC hardware
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During an otherwise correct install of OI from a DVD, I got this group of errors:
2019-10-16 13:20:19,600 - ERROR : install_utils.py:411 bootadm: invalid option or missing option argument: -M 2019-10-16 13:20:19,602 - ERROR : install_utils.py:411 USAGE: 2019-10-16 13:20:19,603 - ERROR : install_utils.py:411 bootadm update-archive [-vn] [-R altroot [-p platform]] 2019-10-16 13:20:19,603 - ERROR : install_utils.py:411 bootadm list-archive [-R altroot [-p platform]] 2019-10-16 13:20:19,604 - ERROR : install_utils.py:411 bootadm install-bootloader [-fv] [-R altroot] [-P pool] 2019-10-16 13:20:19,605 - ERROR : ti_install.py:163 Failed to execute bootadm install-bootloader 2019-10-16 13:20:20,376 - ERROR : ti_install.py:675 One or more ICTs failed. See previous log messages
This happened because bootadm install-bootloader on SPARC does not support the -M option. It can be fixed by modifying bootadm so that it accepts -M but ignores it, or by modifying ti_install.py to not specify the -M option on SPARC hardware. bootadm is part of illumos. ti_install.py is part of the slim_source consolidation.
I was installing a version of OI from 2018. It includes illumos of about the same vintage. As far as I can tell, neither bootadm nor ti_install.py have been updated since that year.
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