[Sunhelp] Solaris 8 - unable to mount cdrom (w/or w/o volcheck)

[Ben Dougherty]

A volume management daemon called 'vold'
handles the mounting of cdroms and
floppys, you should'nt have had to
create a directory /cdrom as this should
have been created with the install. When
vold detects an inserted cd it mounts
the device within the /cdrom directory.
If you have created it make sure
the permissions are ok.

Check out /var/adm/vold.log

Make sure vold is running 'ps -elf |
grep vold' and check out the man page on
it.

Check that you have a /vol directory
within that it should contain
dev/dsk/<cdrom device>

Check your /etc/vold.conf has the
following entries:

# Labels supported
label cdrom label_cdrom.so cdrom
# Devices to use
use cdrom drive /dev/rdsk/c*s2
dev_cdrom.so cdrom%d
# Actions
insert dev/dsk/* user=root
/usr/sbin/rmmount
eject dev/dsk/* user=root
/usr/sbin/rmmount

Check out your /etc/rmmount.conf file
for the following:

# File system identification
ident hsfs ident_hsfs.so cdrom
ident ufs ident_ufs.so cdrom floppy
rmscsi pcmem

# Actions
action cdrom action_filemgr.so

Hope that helps,
Ben.

Matt Tilley wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just done a fresh install of Solaris 8 on a Sparc 10, so I know that
> the cdrom is seen by system (install done w/cd).  I've created /cdrom (and,
> just to be sure, /CDROM). The link exists for c0t6d0s0,1,2,3,4 and 6 in
> /dev/dsk/.  FWIW, sd6 can also be seen in dmesg.
> 
> The problem is that after inserting a CD into the cdrom drive, waiting a few
> seconds for the flashing leds to finish, I do a "volcheck" - cd to /cdrom
> and I don't see anything (no other directories, files, or anything).  I've
> tried manually mounting /dev/dsk/c0t6d0sx, but get an error message
> (/dev/dsk/c0t6d0sx is alreay mounted, /cdrom is busy or the allowable number
> of mount points has been exceeded).  To be sure, I unmount /cdrom and get
> the expected error message:  warning: /cdrom not in mnttab, /cdrom not
> mounted.
> 
> This is probably an easy one, but without the answer it isn't easy to me!!
> 
> Anyway with a helpful clue on this?
> 
> TIA
> 
> - Matt
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