In transitioning Solaris Sparc sun4u to newer sun4v architecture we found that, sometimes, the image of the old server would not install onto the new server. The image file contains 20-30 text lines describing the system that was imaged and then the image itself. This file is quite large in some cases, takes a long time to create, and is made during an outage.

The fix, once the image is already made, is quite janky. You need to append the string 'sun4v' into the the field 'content_architectures=' at the 20th or so. The other part is you do not want to read the rest of the file. Someone came up with this and saved the day. What do you think? Was there a better approach? Is there a way to do this using command line arguments that makes sense?

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