I have a SUN v480 running Solaris9 with the latest (well, as of
January anyway) patch cluster.

The cdrom drive contains a disk with a filesystem that I wish to have
mounted at boot up. I have an entry in /etc/vfstab that works
perfectly when the system is up (ie, I can type "mount /cdrom" and
read the contents of the drive).

The problem is that during a reboot of the system the OS unmounts all
the filesystems (as usual) and ejects the cd. The cdrom drive is not
motor driven, so it is not withdrawn back into the machine to be
remounted at boot up.

Can the "auto-eject" behavior of the drive be disabled?

dave_estock@yahoo.com wrote:
> I have a SUN v480 running Solaris9 with the latest (well, as of
> January anyway) patch cluster.
> 
> The cdrom drive contains a disk with a filesystem that I wish to have
> mounted at boot up. I have an entry in /etc/vfstab that works
> perfectly when the system is up (ie, I can type "mount /cdrom" and
> read the contents of the drive).

Remove the line from /etc/vfstab and use automounter to mount
your cdrom. That is how it was set up by default. Why did you
change it?

Sami

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For security reasons we can't allow someome to be able to insert a cd
and have it mounted automatically.

dave_estock@yahoo.com wrote:
> For security reasons we can't allow someome to be able to insert a cd
> and have it mounted automatically.

This implies that people have physical access to the machine.  Can't they
just push the power button, and while the machine crashes/restarts, stuff
in the CD they have... amounting to the same thing?

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