Adam Warner wrote:
> Thanks. Knowing how to create my own devices is beyond me at this stage. I
> was not able to properly mount /dev/hde1 and received this error message:
> mount failed: block device required.
See the installer caveats at
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/pr_installer.html for hints on making
devices...
It's not too bad.
Use "linux rescue" off the installer CD.
Check /proc/devices to make sure you have IDE support at all (you should
see "hd" or "ide" - I'm not sure...). Insert modules as necessary
(ide-mod, ide-disk, ide-cd...).
You can make devices as follows:
cd /tmp
mknod hda<partition # of root fs> b 3 (i.e. mknod hda1 b 3)
mknod hda<partition # of /boot fs> b 3 (if you have /boot)
mount hda<part#> /mnt/A
mount hda<part#> /mnt/A/boot
chroot /mnt/A
Now you should be able to do some lilo work...
if you need to recreate the initial ramdisk:
/sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.0-SGI_XFS_PR.img 2.4.0-SGI_XFS_PR
vi /etc/lilo.conf
add to the correct kernel entry:
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.0-SGI_XFS_PR.img
/sbin/lilo -v
When you're done:
exit (out of chrooted shell)
umount /mnt/A/boot
umount /mnt/A
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