Generally speaking, BigAdmin is a great
and valuable source for Sun’s systems administrators. Here is an awesome
article describing how to patch (update) the kernel used during an
installation or system upgrade process, known as miniroot, for x86
based Solaris platform.
At work, we precisely encounter a bug between Solaris 6/06 and the
provided nVidia driver which prevents jumpstarting it on a
Sun Fire X4100 M2 Server. The
support team said we can apply specific patches, already present in
Solaris 11/06 at that time. Because we don’t really known the exact
procedure to follow to update the miniroot accordingly, and because
these machines must be provisioned very quickly, we doesn’t investigate
much on that way (ending installing them with DVD-ROMs, in servers
room). Now, after reading the proposed article,
we will certainly take the time to do so… if we know how to get the
proper bundle of patches to correct our bug.