On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, James Miller wrote: > 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: > > -------------------------------------------------------- > [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 > --------------------------------------------------------- >
Looks like a warning, not an error. Lilo seems to have completed successfully. <obligatory disclaimer> I don't use devfs, YMMV :) </> > 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 I imagine that fstab will never be taken into account when /proc/partitions and /dev are compared. I would not be surprised if it's purely an artefact of using devfs, or perhaps you are supposed to _not_ use /dev/hdc with devfs. As to naming the cdrom, /dev/cdrom will usually be a symlink to another device (e.g. hdc or perhaps scd0 if your distro uses scsi emulation for read and write). If you are using the ide driver, /dev/hdc or whichever won't cause you problems. Distros usually get these things right, but maybe you compiled your own kernel and used different options. Since /dev/cdrom no longer works for you, where is it pointing (or, exceptionally, which are the device major / minor numbers, and is it char or block - I'm only asking so you can understand why it no longer works :) ? Ken -- Brighton tops UK Jedi league http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/35186.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
