[Gloucs] scsi/ide burner

[William Roe]

Hi,

Remember to install devfsd before booting to a kernel with devfs. It
really helps. In Debian, it is a separate package (no doubt called
devfsd). 

Thanks,

Will

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 23:29, Dave Addison wrote:
> In message <1070316938.624.20.camel at linstation.rebelbase>, Guy Edwards 
> <guy_j_edwards at HotPOP.com> writes
> >On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:42, Dave Addison wrote:
> >[snip]
> >> I'd try adding devfs=mount as a lilo parameter. It looks like the system
> >> is trying to use devfs instead of the old /dev file structure. This
> >> should create the necessary node names for your devices on the fly (it's
> >> a similar idea to the /proc filesystem) but getting it to work with the
> >> old device names is a bit of a nightmare IIRC. I seem to remember it
> >> involved running a userspace daemon which recreated the necessary links
> >> in the dynamic filesystem every time the system booted.
> >
> >hmm. I just tried that before getting your email... I did a google
> >search for devfs=mount and found someone on the kernel mailing list
> >advising not to use it but I just thought I'd give it a try anyway...
> >
> >image=/vmlinuz
> >        initrd=/initrd.img
> >        label=Linux
> >        read-only
> >        append="hda=ide-scsi devfs=mount"
> >
> >when I rebooted Linux did a lot of complaining when booting and then I
> >had to log in for maintenance. /dev folder structure was completly
> >different
> >
> >I found the two hard drives at
> >/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/ (part1 , part2 etc)
> >and
> >/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/
> >
> >I was feeling cowardly and so backed out as things seemed largly broken.
> >I used the debian cd1 as a rescue disc and edited and fixed lilo.conf
> >back to what it was and noticed while using the debian disc that I could
> >mount the cdrom drive as /dev/hda . I thought all the problems must be
> >over and it'd be working again, but when I booted up the normal system
> >it was gone again.
> >
> >anyway, now my lilo.conf looks like:
> >image=/vmlinuz
> >        initrd=/initrd.img
> >        label=Linux
> >        read-only
> >        append="hda=ide-scsi"
> >but still no joy. (scd0 or hda)
> >
> >Is there anything else I could try?
> >Guy
> >
> Not that I know of. I've always chickened out of trying devfs. It does 
> look like the problem is with the ide-scsi though if the debian rescue 
> disk can mount the cdrom as hda.
> 
> Things I can think of. The lilo warning seems to indicate that devfs is 
> running. Does running the mount command show an entry for devfs?
> 
> If so, is the devfsd daemon running?
> 
> The lilo error is occurring because append= is missing. I think the line 
> should read append="hda=ide-scsi"
> 
> Has the ide-scsi module been loaded? (If it is a module)
> 
> There is a FAQ on devfs at
> http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html