/etc/fstab problem on S/390: which package? Userdevfs?

2004-07-23 Thread Adam Thornton
The /etc/fstab written for S/390 assumes old-style, static /dev entries: /dev/dasda1, /dev/dasdb1, and so on. Unfortunately, the installed system does not have those device nodes, but instead has devfs: /dev/dasd/address/part1, etc. The first device (/dev/dasda) works in /etc/fstab and in the

Re: /etc/fstab problem on S/390: which package? Userdevfs?

2004-07-23 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:03:00PM -0500, Adam Thornton wrote: I *think* this should go into subarch-dev in userdevfs, but I definitely would like some confirmation of that before committing any changes. userdevfs was written for systems that couldn't use devfs, 2.2 kernels for instance. I far

Re: /etc/fstab problem on S/390: which package? Userdevfs?

2004-07-23 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Adam Thornton wrote: The /etc/fstab written for S/390 assumes old-style, static /dev entries: /dev/dasda1, /dev/dasdb1, and so on. Unfortunately, the installed system does not have those device nodes, but instead has devfs: /dev/dasd/address/part1, etc. AFAICS the installed system shouldn't

Re: /etc/fstab problem on S/390: which package? Userdevfs?

2004-07-23 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 12:23, Thiemo Seufer wrote: AFAICS the installed system shouldn't mount devfs. It also should have static /dev entries, managed by makedev. In that case where in the debian-installer build do I need to put the script to generate the static /dev entries that the parmfile

Re: /etc/fstab problem on S/390: which package? Userdevfs?

2004-07-23 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Adam Thornton wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 12:23, Thiemo Seufer wrote: AFAICS the installed system shouldn't mount devfs. It also should have static /dev entries, managed by makedev. In that case where in the debian-installer build do I need to put the script to generate the static /dev

Re: /etc/fstab problem on S/390: which package? Userdevfs?

2004-07-23 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 13:23, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Are you sure this doesn't simply hide the static entries by mounting devfs over it? Well, no, I'm not. In fact, it probably does, and that's why the very first /dev/dasda works. So it looks like the right answer is to rebuild the kernel so as