Re: squeeze mipsel initrd.gz cannot find my disks...

[David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>]

The problem was solved soon after sending this:

I had to disable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2/CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

Now I am formatting and installing.

Thanks,
David Daney

On 01/25/2012 09:51 AM, David Daney wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a mipsel system (Cavium OCTEON) running kernel version 2.6.32.27,
> and I am trying to install squeeze on it.
>
> To do this, I have extracted the
> squeeze/main/installer-mipsel/sb1-bcm91250a/netboot/initrd.gz image onto
> a Compact Flash device. The kernel is then booted using the CF as a root
> filesystem. All this seems to work fine as the installer starts to run
> on my console and can find the network and configure it using DHCP
>
> However when I get to the part where it tries to find disks I get:
>
>
>
> ┌────────────────────┤ [!] Detect disks ├────────────────────┐
> │ │
> │ No partitionable media │
> │ No partitionable media were found. │
> │ │
> │ Please check that a hard disk is attached to this machine. │
> │ │
> │ <Go Back> <Continue> │
> │ │
> └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
>
>
>  From a different shell, I can see that /proc/partitions contains all my
> disks (both the CF being used as '/' and an 82GB SATA device) and they
> are in /sys as well. But the udev doesn't seem to be populating
> /dev/with them.
>
> Any pointers as to how to get it to see the disks? I think I am almost
> there.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> David Daney