freebsd stable - Oct 2011 - installing 9.0-RC1 via netboot still fails

Installing 9.0-RC1 via netbooting still fails, at least on sparc64.

See also
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=41704+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2011/freebsd-sparc64/20111016.freebsd-sparc64
for a possible fix/workaround.

Cheers
Michiel