Subject: Re: now / does not exist.
From: Geert Janssens (geert.janssens3@pandora.be)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 14:35:28 MST
David Wright wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, David Wright wrote:
>
>
>>40 GB Seagate Barracuda already partitioned (8 partitions) for writing to
>>and Linux (linux formatted: 20 MB boot (HFS) 128 MB swap (Linux swap) 2000
>>MB Root (Linux partition) home 500 MB (Linux)
>>
>>
>
> This is your problem. You really need to let the OS partitioner make its
> own partitions. Use Drive Setup for Mac partitions and parted or the YDL
> installer for making linux partitions. Specficly the YDL installer needs
> to create the ybin boot partition becasue Nothing else out there will set
> it to the type ybin needs.
>
> Wipe all the parttitions on the 'cuda (eg: they should be listed as "Free
> Space") you want to use for linux and use the installer partition editor
> to remake them.
>
> -n
>
>
> nathan,
>
> Thanks for your help i did what you suggested. YDL made the proper ybin
> partition. Now the problem is when i choose to boot to linux at the yaboot
> prompt. After several screens of text (i choose the text login) it finally
> ends up on a screen that states that there is no /dev/hdb17 (which shoud be
> my swap partition) or /dev/hdb18 (which should be my root) and that i have
> been dropped into a shell to correct this problem. It also states that i can
> hit ctrl d to log in normally but that does not actually work (of course how
> could i log in to a non-existant root) . Unfortunetly i do not know enough
> commands or what is going on to actually fix this problem from the command
> line and since i cannot actually log into linux i have to quit and reboot
> into macos.
>
Your problem is that the standard linux installation only deals with 16
partitions.
That means that in the /dev filesystem, only 16 entries per harddisk are
created (in your case /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hdb16).
If you need more, you can use the command mknod to create more entries.
Example:
mknod b /dev/hdb17 3 17
Since I don't have access to linux myself right now, I'm typing this off
of my head, so you should check it (for example on
http://www.rt.com/man/mknod.1.html if you don't have access to the linux
man pages)
The 'b' stands for block device
/dev/hdb17 is the entry in the /dev filesystem you want
3 is the major device number (I found this in /etc/filetypes or
something like that)
17 is the minor device number
Hope this helps,
Geert
> I don't know if part of the problem is that i would like so many partitions
> on the 'cuda. I would actually like 8 partitions for various reasons and
> varying work situations. I have had 8 partitions fine for writing to but now
> i'm wondering if this is a possible problem for installation.
>
>
> I would like to add linux to this scheme. (scheme already works without
> linux - but everything is backed-up so i can totally repartition if not):
>
> 1. 850 MB Mac OS back-up System Folder
> 2. 850 CDR Burner
> 3. 3 GB Linux (then this sub partitioned for boot - swap - root - home -
> usr)
> 4 1 GB text files only in progress(small files)
> 5. 15 GB Multimedia in progress (big files)
> 6. 15 GB Stored final work only (all work completed no writing to this
> partition)
> 7. 1 GB Internet downloads
> 8. 750 MB cache
>
>
> Since i can only set Linux space as "unallocated" (in Apple Drive set-up so
> it will be read correctly for YDL) it serves up one block.
> so now the paths become:
> /dev/hdb9 is back-up Mac system folder
> /dev/hdb10 CDR burner center
> /dev/hdb11 Linux
> /dev/hdb12 text files work
> /dev/hdb13 multimedia
> /dev/hdb14 stored work
> /dev/hdb15 internet downloads
> /dev/hdb16 cache
>
> so when i go to YDL to make my Linux partitions it shows the hdb's above.
> and automatically makes swap dev/hdb17, root dev/hdb18 etc, (and not swap
> dev/hdb12 and root /dev/hdb13 which is what i would prefer and think should
> be done) It doesn't seem good that swap and root arr at the outskirts of the
> disk. Is this why they are not being created in the first place?
>
> Any help or feedback anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank
> you in advance
>
> -david
>
>
>
>
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