Bug 63595

Summary:	Mounting Solaris HSFS CDs only make the first slice visible
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Steve-o <fnjordy>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/printfriendly.do?assetkey=1-25-50566-1
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Script workaround

Description Steve-o 2004-09-10 14:44:51 UTC

Solaris install CDs comprise of five slices s0,s1, ..., s5.  In order to make Gentoo a Jumpstart server for Solaris files need to be copied from slices s0 and s1.

UFS File System support and Sun Sparc partition support is compiled into the kernel (2.4.26 / gentoo-sources).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Download Solaris 9 Sparc CD 1 and 2 ISOs
2.  Mount ISO 1 on loopback device
3.  Look for directory Solaris_9/Tools/Boot

Actual Results:  
Directory not found.

Expected Results:  
Slices should appear similar to on Solaris, e.g.

/mnt/cdrom/s0
/mnt/cdrom/s1
...

This has been discussed on the Kernel email lists and appears to be defiency of
the cdrom driver to check partitions.

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0209.1/0985.html

Comment 1 Steve-o 2004-09-10 14:48:52 UTC

Created attachment 39359 [details]
Script workaround

Script automates procedure recommended by Sun to access the first two slices
from the ISO image and mounts to /tmp/suncd/s{0,1}

Comment 2 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-11 11:31:01 UTC

Hm - well this seems to be an upstream kernel bug rather than something Gentoo specific so could you please file an upstream bug at http://bugme.osdl.org so the upstream kernel developers can examine this? Thanks!

Comment 3 Steve-o 2004-09-11 12:08:43 UTC

Logged upstream, ID 3381:  http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3381