problems with enabling cdrom drives

[Jerry McBride]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 22:17:33 -0400 Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com> wrote:

> Do you think that devfs is the reason why when I reboot my hosed computer
> with Knoppix, and chroot and run lilo, I get a device not found error? The
> devices don't exist? If this is so, that would be a good reason to dump
> devfs pronto.
> 

>From what I understand about chroot, when invoked the target directory actually
becomes the root dir. There fore, you must supply all resources that your new
environment needs, including required devices in /dev. As suggested elsewhere,
just chroot into the new environment and run MAKEDEV. Your devices should then
be present for lilo to operate on them correctly. 

I doubt that Knoppix had anything to do with killing your computer... I mean
after all, you were able to mount the partitions on your computer, so the device
in/dev must have been present and working correctly. If you ran lilo from a
chrooted directory, perhaps your lilo.conf was in error?

As for devfs, it's a better way of doing things. I believe more and more
distributions will be using it in the future. You may as well keep a good thing.
It comes as part of Gentoo 1.4 and hasn't cause me a single problem, The most
compelling reason to use it... a much smaller /dev directory.

Cheers.

P.S. We're getting ready for another round of layoffs at work. These days it's
nothing like going to work, it's more like going to the funeral home to view a
loved one. Sad.

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