Sun Microsystems X4640 manual SIA Boot Starts, Then Stops

	Debugging Unattended Installation Problems
Problem	What you will see
The state file URL (siaurl) is incorrect.	If the state file URL (siaurl) is incorrect, the
	installation appears to hang.
	Check the console for the following error message
	that appears after the VNC information:
	Unable to fetch unattended statefile: URL
The InstallLoc in the state file URL (siaurl) is	The system reboots without an error message and
incorrect.	the console displays messages such as the following
	message before rebooting:
	Can’t MD5 ...
The Kickstart entry in state file URL (siaurl) is	The installation appears to hang and the console
incorrect.	displays the following message:
	apit-magic: run: /installer/..."
A parameter in the URL file is incorrect.	When connecting to VNC, you will see that the
	unattended network installation stopped and is
	waiting for input.

SIA Boot Starts, Then Stops

The initrd.img file used by SIA is over 100 megabytes. The Solaris TFTP daemon is unable to support the size of the image.

If the SIA starts to boot, then stops with a blank screen and displays a time-out error message, switch to a TFTP server with a different operating system.

VNC Password Does Not Get Set

If the VNC password was not set, the following message displays on the console:

mv /dev/tty /dev/tty-node

ln -s /proc/self/fd/0 /dev/tty

echo password

/usr/X11R6/bin/vncpasswd.real /installer/vncpasswd

echo password

They don’t match. Try again.

This issue is a timing problem. To resolve this problem, reboot the system and restart the installation.

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