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How to mount USB & CDROM drives from single user mode - Solaris boot disk?

800808Jun 8 2012 — edited Jun 10 2012
Hi All,

I need to carry out ufsrestore on a single newly replaced system disk (no redundancy / mirroring) from either USB or CDROM drives from the following steps:
( i ) GRUB => e, e, cdrom –s, Enter, b (boot from Solaris 10 x86 media).
( ii ) Choose menu 1 for Install Solaris Interactive Mode to reach single user mode.
Below are the commands that I have tried in single user mode without success:
mount –r –F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0 /cdrom (after unmount Solaris CD)
  mount: /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0 is not a DOS filesystem.

svcadm –v enable smserver
  svcadm: Pattern ‘smserver’ doesn’t match any instances

svcadm enable autofs
  svcadm: Pattern ‘autofs’ doesn’t match any instances

devfsadm
  devfsadm: mkdir failed for /dev 0s1ed: Read-only file system

mkdir /mnt
  mkdir: Failed to make directory “/mnt”; Read-only file system
Part of the problem is due to the current READ ONLY filesystems which does not allow the creation of mount point such as /mnt.

I have been able to create both / root (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0) and /export/home (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0) filesystems with newfs that are awaiting for restore using ufsrestore.

The only option I am left with is to attach a secondary disk to install Solaris 10 on either of them before bring the system to multi-user mode so that service such as volmgt, autofs, volfs are available to access USB & CDROM drives.

Any suggestion on how to resolve this issue?

Many thanks,

Jack
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