Thanks to Mike and John for all their help. I learned a lot.
I was able to change my lilo.conf and fstab from the
/dev/scsi/hostW/busX/targetY/lunZ/* scheme to /dev/sdaX instead, and
my 2.4 kernel came back up no problem. (I wish I could remeber what
forced me into using the /dev/scsi scheme
Mike Williams wrote:
Kinda, yes.
Add /dev/sdXY entries, but under someother directory, /mnt/gentoo for example.
i.e.
/dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo auto noatime 0 1
/dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot auto ro,noatime 0 0
etc, etc
The mount -a, and see what happens.
Great suggestion. Trying it I got a
what does cat /proc/mounts say?
On Thursday 20 October 2005 11:53, Ian Brandt wrote:
Mike Williams wrote:
Kinda, yes.
Add /dev/sdXY entries, but under someother directory, /mnt/gentoo for
example. i.e.
/dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo auto noatime 0 1
/dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot auto ro,noatime 0
John Jolet wrote:
what does cat /proc/mounts say?
# cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0
none /dev devfs rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /boot ext3 rw,noatime 0 0
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On Thursday 20 October 2005 17:53, Ian Brandt wrote:
Great suggestion. Â Trying it I got a rather odd result:
# mount -av
mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted on /mnt/gentoo/
mount: none already mounted on /dev/shm
mount: mount point /mnt/gentoo/boot does not exist
My main curiosity is the
okay, and does that agree with /etc/mtab?
On Thursday 20 October 2005 12:05, Ian Brandt wrote:
John Jolet wrote:
what does cat /proc/mounts say?
# cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0
none /dev devfs rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
none /dev/shm
John Jolet wrote:
okay, and does that agree with /etc/mtab?
Not exactly:
# cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0
none /dev devfs rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /boot ext3 rw,noatime 0 0
#
Mike Williams wrote:
Interesting...
A 'cat /proc/mounts' like John suggest would be helpful, before and after
attempting to mount stuff, also try the mount manually.
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/somethingthatexistsbutisntbeingused.
The manual mount worked:
# cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
mtab has the entry that's blocking youwonder if you can just
copy /proc/mounts over /etc/mtab..
On Thursday 20 October 2005 12:51, Ian Brandt wrote:
John Jolet wrote:
okay, and does that agree with /etc/mtab?
Not exactly:
# cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root /
On Thursday 20 October 2005 18:51, Ian Brandt wrote:
The manual mount worked:
OK great, I'd change my fstab, and reboot to 2.4.X/devfs now, but I'm known
for being a little gungho :)
BTW, what path for root do you pass to grub?
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On Thursday 20 October 2005 18:57, John Jolet wrote:
mtab has the entry that's blocking youwonder if you can just
copy /proc/mounts over /etc/mtab..
Probably safer to just remove the erroneous sda3 line by hand, and is unlikely
to cause issues.
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Mike Williams wrote:
OK great, I'd change my fstab, and reboot to 2.4.X/devfs now, but I'm known
for being a little gungho :)
Well, guess there's not much more I can do.
Supposing it doesn't come up, would a rescue CD be required to fix it?
I left a copy of the old /etc/fstab as
Hi,
I'm trying to remotely upgrade my server from
gentoo-sources-2.4.25_pre7-r2 to gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r9, i.e. from
devfs to udev. My root partition is on a RAID 1 mirror on an Adaptec
2100S. My existing fstab is below. It was summarized to me by the
NOC over the phone, so I don't have the
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 17:50, Ian Brandt wrote:
1) How can I tell what the new name is going to be?
I'd imagine /dev/sdXY will exist under both udev and devfs, and be the same,
they certainly always have done for me.
2) As I'm doing this upgrade remotely, how can I set up to fail back
Mike Williams wrote:
I'd imagine /dev/sdXY will exist under both udev and devfs, and be the same,
they certainly always have done for me.
For whatever reason I couldn't get /dev/sda3 in fstab to work when I
originally installed Gentoo on this box many moons ago, I had to use
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 22:00, Ian Brandt wrote:
Is there some reason the symbolic links wouldn't have worked?
None that I'm aware of.
My fear is if I change my root in fstab to /dev/sda3 my 2.4 kernel
won't come back up, and at $125/hr I'm really trying to avoid getting
the NOC
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