I trying to use the CF card as local storage, I'm using the PXE ROM in the BIOS for booting.
I think I'm looking for something to put in devfs.conf to make the /dev/hda device. jeff At 11:52 AM 10/3/2002 -0700, Ken Godee wrote: >Jeff, >Maybe I'm just confused..... >Are you trying to create a local storage device for >the workstation or are you just trying to use it to boot >up ltsp? > > > I apologize if this has already been covered, I'm new to the list > > and didn't find anything about this in the archive. > > > > I'm running LTSP on a VIA mini-ITX motherboard and having a great time. > > I'm booting using the PXE ROM in the BIOS and it's just great. > > > > I'm playing around with adding a compact flash card plugged into an > > IDE connector through an adapter and having a problem with devfsd > > (I think). The CF card looks just like an IDE disk drive to the system. > > > > I add the following lines in the lts.conf: > > > > MODULE_01 = ide-mod > > MODULE_02 = ide-disk > > MODULE_03 = ide-probe-mod > > > > This loads the IDE drivers and when booting I get console messages > > indicating that the box is probing the IDE bus and finds the SanDisk > > CF card. > > > > The problem is that there is no /dev/hda device created in /dev. As > > I understand devfsd it should create the device when it is > > probed by the driver. Interestingly, devfsd does create the > > directory structure /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/, but it doesn't > > create the special block device file at the bottom of the tree. > > > > If I manually do a mknod and create /dev/hda everything works fine, > > I can create a filesystem on the CF card and everything is great. > > > > Does anyone know what might be going on here? > > > > jeff > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
