/dev/sda not created with alternative network install

nomadlogic · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 4 Location: NYC

quick background, i have installed gentoo successfully serveral times. i did something real stupid and figured a fresh install wouldn't kill me ;-)

rather than buring the ISO i have usually installed via the alternative grub-->tftp /kernel and initrd method. it's worked in the past on this machine.
this time i was able to boot, my kernel modules for the disk and ethernet devices are loaded properly. i setup my ethernet device and i can even ssh to another machine (yea! ;-)

i am trying to mount my previous partitions and chroot etc. but that's not working. a:
$ ld /dev/ | grep sd*
returns nothing...and obviously
$fdisk /dev/sda
does not work either. can't find a MAKEDEV or anything....
any suggestions/ideas?

cheers!!
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rac · Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 2:32 am Post subject:

Are you sure that SCSI support, SCSI disk support, and support for the host adapter is in the kernel?
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nomadlogic · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 4 Location: NYC

hey thanks for replying! so yea i'm able to get SCSI controller support. the kernel even loads the modules (aic7xxx & scsi_mod are loaded). altho the aic7xxx module is reported as unused which makes sense is suppose. wierd eh ;-)

cheers!
nomad
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rac · Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 7:09 am Post subject:

How about SCSI disk support (I always compile it into the kernel, but I think it's sd_mod)? And devfs? You can see if it's enabled by looking for it in /proc/filesystems.
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nomadlogic · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 4 Location: NYC

i *believe* SCSI disk support is included with the kernel. a #dmesg not only reports my correct SCISI card but my disks are recognized as well. /proc/filesystems looks like this:

>nodev rootfs
>nodev pipefs
> ext2
> ext3
> xfs

...well those are the interesting lines atleast. all my partitions excpet /home were formatted with XFS. does this help at all

again let me remind you that i had gentoo working on this box when i screwed up my /etc directory. i am using the same method to re-install. that's why i'm confused that my disks are not being created.
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rac · Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 4:52 pm Post subject:

If there's no "nodev devfs" line in /proc/filesystems, you're missing devfs support. https://forums.gentoo.org/faq.php#9 contains explicit instructions for enabling it.
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nomadlogic · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 4 Location: NYC

shoot. sorry i left that line out. it is there. i think i'm getting to the point of putting slack on this box until i can access a cdrom burner. that is unless you know of a way to do a similar network install with the 1.4rc1 version. http://gentoo.org/doc/altinstall.html is the doc i've been using to do it via a tftp boot process. do you know if it's possible to do this with the 1.4rc1 iso images. i could not find a file similar to gentoo-ix86-1.2.iso for 1.4. i looked around livecd-basic-1.4_rc1-r2.iso but could not find a "kernel" or initrd file there.

cheers! for all your help upto this point!

pete
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