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Solaris 2.6 installer fails to create filesystems on SPARCstation IPX #228

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I'm using a BlueSCSI v2-2023.03a (firmware v2024.12.08) in a Sun SPARCstation IPX, with both the hard drive image and Solaris 2.6 installer image on the device.

I am able to use the format utility to create a disk label, so writing to the disk does work, but when the Solaris installer attempts to create the filesystems, it errors out:

Configuring disk (c0t3d0)
    - Creating Solaris disk label (VTOC)

Creating and checking UFS file systems
    - Creating / (c0t3d0s0)

ERROR: File system creation failed for / (c0t3d0s0)

ERROR: Could not check or create system critical file systems

ERROR: Could not update disks with new configuration

No other output is given by Solaris to describe the nature of the error. I have attached a debug log of the system booting, going into the Solaris installer, and at the very end attempting to create the filesystems. All commands appear to come back "Good".

log.txt

I tried a few SD cards, HDD image sizes, termination changes, etc and found no difference between any of them. I have not tried other versions of Solaris yet, as on this slow machine it takes about 15 minutes to get to this point each time.

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