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Re: Installing with new Installer-Image



Hi Adrian,

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:42 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 09/15/2017 10:35 AM, Stefan Niestegge wrote:
>> - its possible to "modprobe falconide" as well as cdrom, isofs modules

The falconide isn't a platform driver with proper MODULE_ALIAS()  yet,
so its module needs to be loaded based on platform heuristics.
Recent Debian may no longer have those?

>> - dmesg then shows that my Harddrive and my DVD Burner were found as hda,
>> hdb
>> - but no device nodes are created for hda, hdb
>
> Yes, this is what I need to debug next. I had hoped for one of the kernel
> people to chime in and give me a hint what we might be missing here.

Do you have

CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y

?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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