sony vaio sr7k and devfs

[imesg]

As the subject says, I have a sony sr7k. It has a memory stick slot. I have all of the appropriate drivers compiled in the kernel. The memory stick is a usb-massstorage device. Which is a scsi device. When I issue a mount command I get:

root@sr7k:~# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist

And then:

root@sr7k:/dev# ls -la /dev

This:
...
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Sep 10 20:54 sda -> scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
...

So, then:

root@sr7k:~# mount /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt
root@sr7k:~#

The memory stick is mounted on /mnt and /dev/sda1 is created.

root@sr7k:/dev# ls -la /dev

...
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Sep 10 20:54 sda -> scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 34 Sep 10 20:59 sda1 -> scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
...

As you can see /dev/sda1 has been created and after this /dev/sda1 can be mounted and unmounted at will.

Also after reboot If a fdisk /dev/sda is executed /dev/sda1 is created also.

The question is how to have /dev/sda1 created on boot.

Thanks,

Gene

[galenjr]

I had a similar problem. I took out devfs support in my kernel and emerged udev. It's workign for me now.