Re: powerbookG3 boot problem
Actually, I found this little tidbit on some FAQ or HOWTO or Install doc
somwhere:
remount root filesystem read/write
mknod /dev/hdc6 b 22 6 #for my root partition
mknod /dev/hdc8 b 22 8 #for my usr partition
that worked.
thanks for your help
Josh.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Subject:
> potato install
> Resent-Date:
> Sun, 14 May 2000 18:17:03 -0400
> Resent-From:
> debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Date:
> Sun, 14 May 2000 16:16:47 -0600
> From:
> "Jeremiah Merkl" <merkjj@uleth.ca>
> To:
> debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
>
> <snip>
>
> this wouldn't be a problem, except the base system that I pulled down
> (base-2_2.tgz from 2.2.13-2000-05-04) is completely missing
> /dev/hdc* and hdd. I thought it was funny that it had hda, hdb, and
> hde, f, g and h, but no c or d.
>
> So who gets the bug report? base, base-files, base-config, or what?
>
> I got around it by booting off the installer ramdisk again, jumping
> to a shell, and then
> mount /dev/hdc8 /target
> chroot /target /bin/bash (didn't know if this was necessary for the
> MAKEDEV script, but figured what the hell)
> MAKEDEV hdc
>
> and I rebooted back into linux again. No probs, and am finishing the
> rest of the install.
> <snip>
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>
> HTH
> --Nelson Abramson
>
> --
> "Apparently if you play the Windows NT CD backwards you hear satanic messages"
> "You think that's bad, if you play it forwards it installs Windows NT!"
> --orlando
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