Marvin Lyndon schrieb:
Some googling reminded me that the naming convention for devices changes
with 2.6: so I tried editing my /boot/initrd.conf so that it read
CRYPTROOT=/dev/discs/disc0/part1 (formerly /dev/hda1)
BOOTDEV=/dev/discs/disc1 (formerly /dev/sda?)
not necessarily. the naming convention is derived from the devfs
filesystem, introduced in 2.3.x iirc and to be obsoleted again pretty soon
in 2.6 [1]
for general linux-2.6 question, a good starting point is:
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt
> I am pretty much guessing concerning the second device name; how can I
> find the new correct name for /dev/sda if I cannot boot the 2.6 kernel?
"sda" with devfs is /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0 here. but /dev/sda
should also do.
*** script was supposed to create block device nodes for ***
*** BOOTDEV=, CRYPTROOT= and possibly EXTERNALGPGDEV= but ***
*** lacked knowledge of how to create at least one of them. ***
*** Script aborted.
hm, either you're using devfs, which should create the devicenodes by
itself (not?) or you can create the nodes with mknod(1). but i've never
done such things.
Christian.
[1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html
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It's not plugged in.
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