Anyone have any ideas, only error message is:
ERROR: (_app_set_slice) Disk is not selected
Then is simply fails, no other messages:
Verifying disk configuration
Verifying space allocation
- Total software size: 3315.72 Mbytes
ERROR: System installation failed
Solaris installation program exited.
I ran into exactly the same problem on one of my T2000s. In my case the problem was that the second disk in the machine had an EFI style label. The Jumpstart install scripts were failing when trying to configure the disks for mirroring. This was because an EFI labeled disk has a reserved slice 8 that can't be modified and no slice 7. Slice 7 is usually where the Solaris Volume Manager meta database is stored.
Below is the slice structure of my EFI labeled disk.
Volume name = <>
ascii name = <FUJITSU-MAY2073RCSUN72G-0401-68.37GB>
bytes/sector= 512
sectors = 143374737
accessible sectors = 143374704
PartTagFlagFirst Sector Size Last Sector
0rootwm34128.00MB 262177
1swapwu262178128.00MB 524321
2 unassignedwm000
3 unassignedwm000
4 unassignedwm000
5 unassignedwm000
6usrwm52432268.11GB 143358319
8reservedwm 1433583208.00MB 143374703
The solution is to replace the EFI label with a SMI label. Use format -e and relabel the disk. You will be asked to select either an SMI or EFI label. Select a SMI label and the default layout.
Jumpstart will now be able to reconfigure the slices as specified by your configuration.
EFI labels are applied to disks by ZFS when managing whole disks rather then just slices on a disk.
