Re: ESDI Disk

[Laurent PICOULEAU <lcrpic@a2points.com>]

On Fri, 17 Dec, 1999 à 04:03:43PM +0100, OBERLER@de.ibm.com wrote:
> I have an rather! old IBM Thinkpad Model 720. It has MCA architecture and the
> disk is an ESDI disk, but no CDROM.
[...]
>  eda: eda1 eda2 eda3
> I assume that eda1 is my old DOS, while eda2 and eda3 are the Linux ext2 and
> Linux Swap partitions (which I have created before).

How did you created them without the devices fiels ?

[...]
> When I shell-out and check /dev, I can not see any /dev/eda or /dev/eda1
> devices. Are there devices missing? Which? How can I create them?

Does /dev/MAKEDEV exist ? If so, /dev/MAKEDEV eda would suffice, if not then use
mknod to create the block devices (mknod b 36 0 /dev/eda ; mknod b 36 1
/dev/eda1...)

> Is is sufficient to do this an the ash shell and continue installation or has
> the root.bin to be changed? Am I right, if I assume that the resc1440.bin does
> not exactly fit to the root.bin in my sitution?

Not sure

> What do I have to do? I have another system running where I can compile a kernel
> or something else, if this woulld help!
>
Manually format /eda2 and mount it on /target then proceed with the menu
after initialize a linux partition (you'll have to create /etc/fstab too I
think) but try to let the menu does all the work once you've created the
device files.
 

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