Re: [gentoo-dev] hde and hdg (udma card)

["John McCaskey" <jmccaskey1@qwest.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Achim Gottinger" <320095285153-0001@t-online.de>
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] hde and hdg (udma card)


> John McCaskey wrote:
>
> >     So I got the cd to boot now that I have the fixed file, however I
have
> > another little problem.  My hard disks are on a udma100 card and show as
hde
> > and hdg in linux.  The kernel supports the card and when booting off the
cd
> > everything is fine and I fdisked and installed just fine.  I can even
boot
> > ok as grub sees the drives fine.  However, once I am booted I can not
get to
> > them because in /dev I only have up through hdd.  So I can't mount my
boot
> > partition to setup the grub menu file etc.  It seems like this is a
simple
> > problem of adding them to /dev but I don't know how to do that.  If
someone
> > can help me out that would be great.
> >
>
> Hmm, boot from the cd, mount your root partition to /mnt/gentoo, chroot
there,
> cd to /dev and
> then type
> >MAKEDEV hde
> >MAKEDEV hdg
> >
>
> Or another solution add "devfs=mount" to your kernels boot options in the
grub
> bootmenu. That means you use
> the devfs filesystem and devices are generated automatic on demand.
>
> achim~
>
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Thanks for the help guys.