On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:49:53PM +0100, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:54:37AM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:09:34PM +0100, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote: > > Hello! > > > > > Underneath the tmpfs mounted on /dev is the /dev/ that is part of your > > > root device. You can do 'mount -o bind / /mnt; ls /mnt/dev' to see > > > what's there. /dev/.static/dev/ may contain an alias of this. > > didn't knew this one :D > > alas: > > ls -l /dev/.static/dev/console /dev/console > > crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 2005-11-03 19:02 /dev/console > > crw------- 1 root tty 5, 1 2005-10-27 23:54 /dev/.static/dev/console > > > > > For yaird, that /dev on your root device needs to contain at > > > least /dev/console, there's some other stuff too that you want there. > > > On an etch install I tested this week, those special files are available > > > without special user action necessary. > > seems as if the file is there.... > > Pity, it was a nice theory. > > > i have put up the stuff related to what asked me the ramfs guy and the > > menu.lst onto http://bboett.free.fr/kernel/ > > could it be possible that theres some problem with rdeving the installed > > kernel? > > strange this is that all kernels have a boot device hda1.... and i don't > > have any device called by that name... does grub automaticly do a rdev? > > Rdev as in http://www.netadmintools.com/html/8rdev.man.html ? > That's been obsolete a few years now. > > Some notes on your dump: > * the root=/dev/sdb1 should be redundant but harmless. > you may want to try without. > * you seem to have a aic7xxx type scsi controller with a straightforward ext3 > fs on it > as root device. Correct?
And there are recent bug reports for that driver: see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338089 This may cause your boot problems. > * boot with 'ydebug' on the kernel command line and you'll be dumped in a > shell > before switching to the real root. > You'll also see the init script commands being executed. > Any odd error messages? > > * At this point you don't have ls, but you can do 'cd /mnt; echo *'. > /mnt should at this point have your root device, with /mnt/dev/console on > it. > > Have a look around /mnt; does it look like your root? > > Have a look at /sys/block/sdb; does it look as a /sys entry for a working > disk? > > Regards, > Erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
