[LinuxBIOS] Tyan s2892 the OLPC way

[Richard Smith]

On 10/13/06, Myles Watson <myles at pel.cs.byu.edu> wrote:

> >> I can't mount my IDE hard drive, even though I can see it in the /proc
> >> filesystem.  I'm trying mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /hdd.
>
> >/dev/hda[?] don't exist in the simple filesystem. Did you add the
> >devices to devices.txt?

> Yes I did.  I wasn't sure if I added them correctly, though.  I just copied
> most of the entries from another line and changed the major and minor
> numbers.

Hmm.. That should work.  I would verify when you boot the image that
the devices really exist and the numbers are right.

Do you really have ext3 in the kernel or just ext2?  ext2 will not
mount a ext3 system if the journal is dirty with out a patch and even
then only ro.

-- 
Richard A. Smith