On 1/22/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/22/06, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Try running MAKEDEV, it should give all the missing devices the old > > fashioned way. If that does not work, "mknod /dev/hda b 3 0". > > > > > > tried this with no success -- /dev/hda10 still doesn't get recreated. > > Let me reiterate the main problem -- I tried to dist-upgrade my system > (debian sid, about 6 months outdated, running on a blue & white Mac > g3), and when udev wouldn't install, I apt-getted a newer kernel to > try again; rebooted, & now my system doesn't find /dev/hda -- which is > where my /var is located, which means apt-get doesn't work at all, so > udev can't be installed... > Trying to do a better job of diagnosingthis problem. I no longer think the problem is with udev per se, despite the fact that a udev incompatibility is what helped make the system unusable. I tried booting with my old (2.6.10) kernel & found that the system boots properly, that hda is found & the relevant partitions mounted, & that my ethernet is recognized & mounted. So the problem -- that, while my scsi disks are recognized & mounted, my IDE disk isn't, and my ethernet isn't found -- is presumably to do with the stock 2.6.15-powerpc I installed in an effort to get udev installed & my dist-upgrade complete. Unfortunately I do still need this kernel, so that I can finish my system-destroying dist-upgrade. I'm not sure how to proceed. my old kernel, 2.6.10, runs fine, but udev still blocks my dist-upgrade. I would try building a new 2.6.15 kernel based on my 2.6.10config, but the system is so badly screwed up right now (e.g. even gcc is only partly installed) that I don'tthink things like make-kpkg are working. so I'd appreciate help on either of 2 solutions: 1 - find a wayto downgrade udev & undo the dist-upgrade, which I can temporarily put off until I get a 2.5.12+ kernel to work properly. 2 - with the system in this somewhat messed up state, figure out what's wrong with the 2.6.15 kernel & fix it somehow I'm not especially optimistic -- but thanks for any help you canoffer! matt ps, in case anyone's wondering, I did look a little at my config-2.6.x files. while idedisk support is compiled into my old kernel, it's a module in the new, stock kernel; however, I used modconf successfully to add idedisk tothe running kernel; installation succeeded, but /dev/hda still wasn't recognized. I should perhaps say that my system was already screwed when I installed linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc, & I had to manually wget & dpkg -i various kernel tools -- yaird & some mkinitrd tools as I recall. don't know if this is the root or the problem.
