Make .iso mountable in LDOM

UNIX Solaris
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used

mkisofs -lJR -o output_image.iso directory_name

to create an iso on the primary domain of a server.

mounted it locally in the primary using

lofiadm -a /path/to/cd.iso

mount -o ro -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt

verified that I could read the disk correctly.

then created a vdsdev using :

ldm add-vdsdev -options=ro /home/userid/10_Recommended.iso 10_Recommended@primary-vds0

then attached it to the LDOM:

 ldm add-vdisk 10_Recommended 10_Recommended@primary-vds0 ldm

but when I booted the LDOM it didn't see the disk. it doesn't show up in format it doesn't show up in /dev/dsk or /dev/rdsk but it does show in devalias from the OBP.

what am I doing incorrectly?

NOTE: I am not trying to boot from this disk. I want to provide it to the LDOM as a mountable asset to patch from.

thanks in advance

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can you see the "iso" in OBP with "show-disks"?

I would try to "unbind" and "bind" the LDOM again... may be you will get an error to investigate on bind... (in use or something like that)

regards
P

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The problem is that when you use mkisofs it doesn't write a whole partition label so you have to mount it in the vdsdev as a slice:

The solution is to export the ISO with the "slice" option (add-vds options=slice), then you should be able to mount slice s0:

primary # ldm add-vdsdev options=slice /export/image.iso image-iso@primary-vds0

primary # ldm add-vdisk image-iso image-iso@primary-vds0 ldg1
ldg1 # mount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c2d1s0 /mnt
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