[Gloucs] scsi/ide burner

[Dave Addison]

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
-- 
Dave Addison
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