Hi Conrad What kernel are you booting off? As far as I know, the stock bering kernel doesn't have DOC support built in, so even though you have the device files, you won't be able to access ntfla1 unless you build your own kernel with DOC support..
When I last setup a DOC based system, I booted it off an IDE drive running DOS, formatted the DOC with a FAT filesystem (in fact installed DOS), copied all the Bering stuff over, along with a customer kernel with DOC support, ran syslinux on the DOC as boot loader. Seemed to work fine. Cheers Si On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:37:16AM -0700, Conrad Steenberg said: > Hi Jacques > > Thanks for your reply. I think my question was a little unclear, though: > > Making the devices works fine, whether by hand or using root.dev.mk. > What has me stumped is formatting the partition (using either mke2fs of > mkfs.minix from busybox) which gives me the errors described below. > > The Netier doesn't have a hard drive, so it has to be booted using > PXE/dhcp/tftp until I can get the DOC formatted. And I'd very much like > to keep it HD-less since it is blissfully quiet :-) > > Cheers! > > Conrad > > On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 01:27, Jacques Nilo wrote: > > > I'm new to LEAF and embedded devices, so please bear > > with me :-) > > > > > > I trying to create a filesystem on a 72M DOC2000 > > (Netier XL1000), and > > > get up to creating a partition (/dev/nftla1). This is > > with Bering-rc3. > > > > > > When I try mke2fs /dev/nftla1, the following gets > > reported: > > > > > > NFTL_writeblock(): Cannot find block to write to > > > end_request; I/O error, dev 5d:01 (unknown) sector XXXXX > > > Argh! No free blocks found LastFreeEUN = 4603, FirstEUN > > = 3 > > > No Virtual Unit Chains available for folding. Failing > > request > > > > > > This gets repeated lots of times with different values > > for XXXXX. > > > > > > (I _think_ that the utility nftl_format might be able > > to free the blocks > > > on the DOC, but I don't know where to get one that's > > been compiled for > > > Bering.) > > > > > > Does anybody have an idea why the error mesages happen, > > and maybe what > > > to do about it? Or better yet, have copies of the nftl > > utilities > > > compiled with the right libc(+kernel?) to work with > > Bering? > > >From Bering rc3 Changelog: > > root.dev.mk updated to create mtd, nftla1->4, lp0, lp1 > > devices for DoC and parallel printer support > > > > The relevant devices are created automatically at boot > > time (check the /dev directory). > > > > Jacques > > -------------- > > Profitez de l'offre exceptionnelle Tiscali ! > > "Internet Gratuit le Jour" > > Cliquez ici, http://register.tiscali.fr/forfaits_ls/ > > Offre soumise � conditions. > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leaf-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel > -- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _______________________________________________ > Leaf-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
