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Zev Benjamin wrote: | Hi, | I've been wrestling with getting UML to run under an installer | (Linux/Athena), and I've run into some ubd naming issues. The installer | looks at /proc/partitions to ensure that you've entered a valid | partition name. Under a 2.6.10 UML, that file shows devices with names | like ubda and ubdb1. Under a 2.4.27 UML, that file shows devices with | names like ubd/disc0/disk and ubd/disc1/part1. The problem is that I'm | trying to do the install under 2.6.10 (afs drivers don't seem to work | under 2.4) and /dev only has devices that look like /dev/ubd/0 | (/dev/ubd/disc0, etc.). Without devfs, there are only /dev/ubdX (X an | integer). In other words, /dev/ubd[abc,etc] don't exist. Do I have to | make symlinks, is this a bug in uml, or is this an ongoing naming | migration issue? Can someone tell me what's going on with ubd naming? | | Thank you very much. | | | Zev Benjamin
If you've got udev (replacement for devfs), they should be created automatically. If not (you've got a static /dev), you can create the device nodes. You may find this script handy:
http://www.linode.com/~caker/uml/makeUBDdev.sh
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