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michael_tn
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 Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 4:27 pm Post subject: swriteboot fails on AS500 |
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good day all ...
trying to put the current build of gentoo on my AS500 workstation. i've gotten to the installing the bootloader bit. when i try to run swriteboot i get:
swriteboot -v -f3 /dev/sda /boot/bootlx
open disk device: no such file for directory
the only thing in /dev is null, no disk device files at all. any ideas where i screwed up? i tried to follow the alpha install guide explicitly ...
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flufff
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 10:43 am Post subject: Re: swriteboot fails on AS500 |
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| michael_tn wrote: | good day all ...
trying to put the current build of gentoo on my AS500 workstation. i've gotten to the installing the bootloader bit. when i try to run swriteboot i get:
swriteboot -v -f3 /dev/sda /boot/bootlx
open disk device: no such file for directory
the only thing in /dev is null, no disk device files at all. any ideas where i screwed up? i tried to follow the alpha install guide explicitly ...
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Late answer but it seams as if there's a problem in the latest tarballs (040313) in /experimental. Try untaring the older one first and then the later one and you should have your /dev back.
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AS2100
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 9:18 pm Post subject: missing /dev during install |
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I had the same problem on my AlphaServer 2100 once a while back. To fix it for the install I did the following when mounting the other filesystems>>
mount -t devfs none /mnt/gentoo/dev
That will put the appropriate info there for the moment. After finishing everything else and rebooting, the devfs in the kernel populates everything and you can go on with your day.
Happy Alpha'ing!!
Matthew |
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