On Sun, 03 Jun 2001, you wrote:
>I have my hard drives connected to a Promise ATA 66 add-on card
>so they're identified as /dev/hde, /dev/hdf, ..., etc.
>
>If I append "ide2=0xNNNN,0xMMMM", etc at the "boot:" prompt,
>tomsrtbt boots up like a charm (and appears to recognize the
>drives). However devices hdeN, hdfN, etc do not exist in the
>/dev directory so I can't mount the drives.
>
>What is required to add additional devices to tomsrtbt and get
>the whole thing written back to a floppy disk? Is there any
>hope for getting the "ide2=..." string permanently installed
>as well?
You can add the lock option at the liloprompt.
But it is hard to remove a locked bootstring if it is not working :
(boot,mount /dev/fd0u17722 /mnt,create a /etc/lilo.conf with
options boot=/dev/fd0u1722 and map=/mnt/map,
then run lilo -R)
make the devices :
mknod /dev/hde b 33 0
mknod /dev/hde1 b 33 1
mknod /dev/hde2 b 33 2
..
..
mknod /dev/hdf b 33 64
mknod /dev/hdf1 b 33 65
..
..
you can do this in rc.settings.gz after mounting /dev/fdu1722.
or you do a full unpack ,modify,buildit of tomsrtbt
>
>Regards,
>Charles Sullivan
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MFG Gernot
