#484 closed defect (duplicate)
MAKEDEV insufficient with more than 4 scsi drives
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| Priority: | lowest | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | 4.0 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
Running "./MAKEDEV -v generic-nopty" does not make all needed devices if there are more than 4 scsi drives, as only sd[a-d] are created (at least for me, my $LFS was on /dev/sdd). I discovered this while trying to mount another partition within the chroot environment It is/was easy enough explicitly add more, of course.
It would be nice to suggest checking scsi devices after MAKEDEV. The first time I built LFS I gave up after one boot attempt (lame, I know) when if I remember properly all my hard drives were not found (I had added extra partitions to fstab and now I suspect but cannot prove the real problem).
This bug is related to Bug# 131.
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 23 years ago
| Priority: | high → normal |
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comment:2 by , 22 years ago
| Priority: | normal → lowest |
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comment:3 by , 22 years ago
| Resolution: | → duplicate |
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| Status: | new → closed |
The make_devices that we talked about may be a much better way of going about device creation. The MAKEDEV-1.8 Bug #78 will deal with this. Marking as dupe of that one.
* This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78 *

With the plan to eliminate MAKEDEV, I think this is pretty much useless at this point. I'm going to drop it to P-5 for now.