I recompiled the kernel as you said, and noticed that it doesn't complain about missing partfs during boot anymore; however there is no additional sd*, still only sdM0 and sdU0.0, which still doesn't show me any partitions.
Am 26.03.2013 14:07, schrieb erik quanstrom: > On Tue Mar 26 08:52:50 EDT 2013, f.psi...@gmx.de wrote: >> I'm currently trying to set up a usb-hdd as my root filesystem; I found >> out, that I have to use partfs to actually see the partitions I create, >> however they don't show up after the next reboot; i have to use fdisk's >> and prep's w command (without actualy modifying the partition table), to >> see the partitions I created in the file system. Is that normal? > > that is normal. but, there is no need to fdisk your disk unless you're > booting from dos. you can use prep directly. for fdisk+prep the > normal way to do this would be > disk/fdisk /dev/sdXX/data>/dev/sdXX/ctl > test -f /dev/sdXX/plan9 && disk/prep /dev/sdXX/plan9>/dev/sdXX/ctl > if you have prep only, only this would be needed > disk/prep /dev/sdXX/plan9>/dev/sdXX/ctl > this is prepackaged in /rc/bin/diskparts, and the kernel will do > this for you on boot. > >> Also, I don't yet quite understand how to boot from such a partition. >> Somehow I need to get partfs into the kernel; but I don't know how, and >> after that, how to use it for booting form the external hdd. > > you need to build partfs into your kernel. add > /arm/bin/disk/partfs > to the bootdir section of your kernel configuration file and rebuild. > in the rpi's case, i believe the kernel config is named /sys/src/9/bcm/pi > or picpu. > > - erik >
