On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 22:06, Darrell Blake wrote: > > Not only does it look like they don't exist; they don't exist :) > > They do. Trust me; they don't. > /dev/hda6 is my swap partition. Not really, no. /dev/hda6 is simply a special file; the name in itself doesn't tell you what it points at. If I did: mknod /dev/mouse b 3 1 .. then /dev/mouse would point at my root partition. But that's pedantry ;) Anyway, the point is though, the /dev/hda* entry is _not_ your partition - it's really a pointer to it, a file who has the same contents as your partition. > I don't know if I'm running devfs. What is it? Go look it up on Google - any explanation I give won't be long enough. Basically, it manages the /dev directory for you. It's part of Linux 2.4+ (although you can get versions for Linux 2.2 I believe), so if you've compiled from scratch you may well have installed it. If the /dev directory on your root partition is not what you see when you boot up, it makes me think that /dev has been mounted over it. > I don't have /dev in my fstab file no. I didn't think you had to. You don't ;) That would have been a problem if it was there.... > I'm not sure if I'm running initfs either. I meant to say initrd; sorry. It's basically a temporary root partition for you to use at boot time; I would say that it's possible that this file hasn't got all the devices you need in it. Look at the initrd(4) and mkinitrd(8) man pages. Cheers, Alex.
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