Re: Can't mount iso image on virtual node

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 09:04:28PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> I want to examine the contents of an iso I created for burning by mounting
> the iso image.
> 
> 
> I followed instructions from:
> http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-rmmedia.html#vnconfig
> 
> # vnconfig  -c vnd0 newsession.iso 
> 
> When mounting, I get invalid argument error:
> 
> # mount /dev/vnd0a /mnt/tmp
> mount_cd9660: /dev/vnd0a on /mnt/tmp: Invalid argument

you could try "mount -rt cd9660 /dev/vnd0a /mnt/tmp"

You are doing this as root, or have made file systems mountable
by mortals?
 
You could go into a bit more depth with:

# ktrace -di mount -rt cd9660 /dev/vnd0a /mnt/tmp
# kdump -R 

and then see where the EINVAL is coming from.

Regards,
Alistair