Jumpstart fails with "No disks found."

I have created a guest domain on a single slice of my disk.I have assigned the disk to the domain and am trying to jumpstart it. The jumpstart config goes fine until it starts to look for disks to install onto. Once it starts the preinstall phase, i get an error.

Here is the output:

Press the return key for an interactive Solaris install program...

Executing JumpStart preinstall phase...

Searching for SolStart directory...

Checking rules.ok file...

Using begin script: install_begin

Using finish script: patch_finish

Executing SolStart preinstall phase...

Executing begin script "install_begin"...

Begin script install_begin execution completed.

─ Warning ───────────&# 9472;──────────γ 2;───────────& #9472;──────────^ 72;─────────── ─────────── 472;─

No disks found.

> Check to make sure disks are cabled and

powered up.

Here is my "test" domain configuration:

[root@jxslabgen04:/etc/dfs]$ ldm list-bindings test

Name:test

State: active

Flags: transition

OS:

Util:0.0%

Uptime: 25m

Vcpu:4

vidpidutil strand

0160.4%100%

1171.1%100%

2180.0%100%

3190.1%100%

Memory: 2G

real-addrphys-addrsize

0x80000000x2080000002G

Vars:boot-device=/virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@0

nvramrc=devalias vnet0 /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/network@0

use-nvramrc?=true

Vnet:vnet1

mac-addr=0:14:4f:fa:5e:f6

service: primary-vsw3 @ primary

[LDC: 0x0]

Vnet:vnet2

mac-addr=0:14:4f:f9:94:ff

service: primary-vsw1 @ primary

[LDC: 0x1]

Vdisk: vdisk1 vol1@primary-vds0

service: primary-vds0 @ primary

[LDC: 0x2]

Vcons: [via LDC:3]

test@primary-vcc0 [port:5000]

Vldcc: vldcc0 [Domain Services]

service: primary-vldc0 @ primary

[LDC: 0x4]

After the jumpstart fails and I get a shell prompt, when I run 'format' I see no disks. It tells me "no disks found" also. What am I doing wrong?

[2501 byte] By [CityGa] at [2007-11-27 10:15:23]
# 1

What device are you trying to use as a virtual disk? I think you are exporting a pseudo

device volume (ZFS or SVM volume?). In such a case that volume is exported as a

single slice disk (disk with only a s0 slice) and the Solaris installer is not able to handle

such a disk.

So you have to create a file with mkfile(1M) and then export that file as a virtual disk.

Be aware of bug 6544963 (vdisk can lose label when rebinding domain) after your

installation is completed and carefully read the instructions on my blog about this

problem:

http://blogs.sun.com/achartre/date/20070503

alex.

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