Re: More on booting 43P-140

On Sat, Jul 14, Leigh Brown wrote:

Hi all,

After an embarrasing hour when I couldn't work out why the root fs disk
wasn't being recognised for my kernels but was for the one I downloaded,
I have finally made it into the install program for SuSE 7.1 and Debian
woody.  However, both have the same problem - they say I don't have any
disks!  This is weird because in both installers I can bring up a shell
and manually create and mount an ext2 partition on hdisk1 (/dev/sdb).

Do you have devfs active in your .config? If yes, boot with "nodevfs" or
devfs=off.

cat /proc/partitions should show /dev/sdaX and notsomething different.

Gruss Olaf

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7.1 and Debian woody.  However, both have the same problem - they say
I don't have any disks!  This is weird because in both installers I
can bring up a shell and manually create and mount an ext2 partition
on hdisk1 (/dev/sdb).

Do you have devfs active in your .config? If yes, boot with "nodevfs"
or devfs=off.

cat /proc/partitions should show /dev/sdaX and notsomething different.

Thanks.  I rebuilt the kernel without devfs support and its working now.
Hopefully, that was the last obstacle to a successful install.

Cheers,

Leigh.


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