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