From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_24_48, DMARC_MISSING,FREEMAIL_FROM,FROM_LOCAL_DIGITS,FROM_LOCAL_HEX, FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS,INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2,RDNS_NONE,SPOOFED_FREEMAIL_NO_RDNS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from [194.25.134.19] (helo=mailout06.sul.t-online.com) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14NnCg-00057H-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:41:05 -0700 Received: from fwd04.sul.t-online.com by mailout06.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14NnCD-0006yf-01; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:40:33 +0100 Received: from helios.bagwan (320095285153-0001@[217.80.39.145]) by fwd04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14NnC0-0n2koiC; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:40:20 +0100 Received: (qmail 10320 invoked by uid 0); 31 Jan 2001 05:21:35 -0000 Received: from sadchitananda2.bagwan (HELO gottinger.de) (achim@192.168.2.1) by helios.bagwan with SMTP; 31 Jan 2001 05:21:35 -0000 Message-ID: <3A77747C.B8E6B8AD@gottinger.de> From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] hde and hdg (udma card) References: <20010130111836.A5028@cvs.gentoo.org> <000901c08b00$b75d9bc0$0400000a@jamiv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 320095285153-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Reply-To: achim@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue Jan 30 19:42:02 2001 X-Original-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:12:12 +0100 X-Archives-Salt: 4cd0407c-6e9f-4ace-be07-3830a9f234ac X-Archives-Hash: 0f8eb8a52b8c4d76b0cc481f8b970d89 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~ > > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://www.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev