I recently made some kernel changes and was fiddling with lilo.conf on a
Debian Sid system. Of course I had to run "lilo" to get the changes to
take effect. When I did, I got an error message that I'm not quite sure
how to interpret. I'd like to ask some input here on what it means and on
what I need to do to correct the problem. Here's what I got when I ran
the command "lilo" from an xterm as root:
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[03:43:[EMAIL PROTECTED] root$ lilo
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
Name change: '/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc' -> '/dev/hdc'
Warning: /dev/hda is not on the first disk
Added Linux-2.4.24 *
Added Linux-2.2.20
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I should mention that I had some problems mounting the CD drive on this
machine initially. To make the CD drive mountable/accessible, I changed
an fstab entry that pointed to the CD device. Here's my current fstab:
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[03:43:[EMAIL PROTECTED] root$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump>
<pass>
/dev/hda1 / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdd2 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /home ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdd1 /usr ext2 defaults
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I believe I changed the entry that now reads "/dev/hdb /cdrom . . ."
from something that was more like "/dev/cdrom /cdrom . . ." Could that
be what's causing the inconsistency between /proc/partitions and the /dev
directory structure? In general, I do not really understand the
/dev/cdrom as opposed to /dev/hdx entry in fstab. I've seen it before,
but I really can't conjecture what's going on with it, and why a CD drive
wouldn't just be labelled the same way as an IDE disk. In any case,
without changing the entry from /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdb, I was unable to
access the drive (unable to mount it when it had a CD in it). Can someone
please help clarify for me 1) whether the /proc/partitions and /dev
directory structure inconsistency could be related to renaming the fstab
entry for the CD drive and 2) why CD drives get device names on some
(newer?) systems like /dev/cdrom instead of /dev/hdx?
Thanks, James
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