Hello Dave,
when I tried doing ramdiskadm, I get error message of Resource temporarily unavailable
I have generally followed this procedure to create a new ramdisk (Cloned from the sun4u architecture):


Create backup of the root folder "/" (sun4u):

Code:

# ufsdump 0cvf /dev/rmt/0 /

This backup is almost 8GB.

Created an empty file of 8GB size:

Code:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=new.img bs =1024 count=8388608

Used the new.img as a block device

Code:

# lofiadm -a new.img /dev/lofi/1

Created a UFS on top of the new.img file

Code:

# newfs /dev/lofi/1

Restored the initial filesystem using ufsrestore

Code:

# ufsrestore rvf /dev/rmt/0

Made the ram disk image bootable

Code:

# /usr/sbin/installboot /mntdir/usr/platform/sun4v/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rlofi/1

Unmounted the image

Code:

# cd /
# umount /mntdir

Modified 1up.conf file in legion to the following:

Code:

  device "memory" 0x1f80000000 +8192M {  // Increase the memory size for the new disk
  virtual_disk;
  load s0 shared "disk1.big";  // replace the disk with the new one you created and use shared instead of rom
  }

Booted on Legion (sun4v architecture) using boot -v command.

Problem is, it starts loading smf services and after loading all of them (89/89) it gets error message that fmd service error and a bunch of error codes with it. eventually gets into maintenance mode.

I need to run Solaris Resource Pool Management (pooladm, poolcfg etc) which uses SUNWpool package. The original ramdisk is too small and does not have this package installed. Even when I tried installing the package on the original ramdisk by putting SUNWpool package at the /var/spool/pkg, it installed successfully but unable to turn on the service daemon (poold) by saying

Code:

pooladm: couldn't open pools state file: No such file or directory

I am not completely sure what am I doing wrong in the procedure.