Jim Conner (jconner@enterit.com)
Fri, 02 Jul 1999 10:39:12 -0400
>I know that this will be a little bit silly but..., have you made a partition
>on it and create a ext2 file system?
>
>fdisk /dev/pda
>
>mke2fs /dev/pda1
>
No this isn't silly. I tried fdisk'ing before sending any questions to
this list. I should be sending you guys more debugging info (per Grant) so
Im going to send a reply to his email after this one with as much info as I
can send. When I tried the fdisk I received the message:
Unable to open /dev/pda
Jim
At 08:53 02.07.99 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Jim Conner wrote:
>
>JC >Ok. Update:
>JC >
>JC >I went ahead and attempted to do this using the modules as LKMs. This way
>JC >I could insmod them after / was mount'ed. However, I have run into
another
>JC >issue.
>JC >
>JC >The modules load fine. But now when I attempt to mount the drive I get:
>JC >
>JC >mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/pda? as a block device
>JC > (maybe `insmod driver'?) **
>JC >
>JC >** /dev/pda"?" is where I have tried various id #s including /dev/pda and
>JC >/dev/pda1.
>JC >
>JC >The devices are present of course. I remade the first 3 using
>JC >/usr/src/linux/drivers/block/paride/mkd to which there was still no
success
>JC >in what I was attempting.
>JC >
>JC >I have a feeling this is a completely different issue than my first and
>JC >eagerly await any input on this subject. Thanks in advance.
>JC >
>JC >Jim
>JC >
>JC >
>JC >
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>JC >
>I know that this will be a little bit silly but..., have you made a partition
>on it and create a ext2 file system?
>
>fdisk /dev/pda
>
>mke2fs /dev/pda1
>
>
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