greg@mobius.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin) (03/01/91)
Hi all, First of all, thanks to all who helped me along the way to getting V1.5 up and running. I just got my V1.5 system running, although I'm still using V1.3 commands! soon enough... Anyhow, the question: I made a 13 meg file system on /dev/hd2 and a 32 meg filesystem on /dev/hd6. I copied the directories on the V1.3 root filesystem disk to /dev/hd2. I then mount /dev/hd6 on /usr for src tree, etc. When I boot V1.5, I select /dev/hd2 as the root file system. (ram disk is 0 blocks). When I login and do a "df", I get: /dev/ram: Can't read super block /dev/hd6 ...... There is no entry for /dev/hd2. Do I have access to the >12meg that is still free on that partition? Or is it better to make a partition that is only as big as the root filesystem and use the rest somewhere else? What does the message about /dev/ram mean? can it be removed? Special question for Earl: will shoelace cure all of this? :-> I do intend to get it running soon enough. All things in time.... Thanks for any help on this, -- Greg Larkin (ASIC Engineer) Viewlogic Systems, Inc. (The CAE Company) 293 Boston Post Road West ____________________________________________ Marlboro, MA 01752 |"This is a fragile ball we are living on; | 508 480 0881 x321 |it's a miracle and we are destroying it.."| Email: greg@Viewlogic.COM |Peter Garrett, Midnight Oil | --------------------------------------------
cechew@sol1.cs.monash.edu.au (Earl Chew) (03/01/91)
greg@mobius.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin) writes: >I made a 13 meg file system on /dev/hd2 and a 32 meg filesystem on >/dev/hd6. I copied the directories on the V1.3 root filesystem disk >to /dev/hd2. I then mount /dev/hd6 on /usr for src tree, etc. >When I boot V1.5, I select /dev/hd2 as the root file system. (ram disk >is 0 blocks). When I login and do a "df", I get: >/dev/ram: Can't read super block >/dev/hd6 ...... >There is no entry for /dev/hd2. Do I have access to the >12meg that >is still free on that partition? Or is it better to make a partition >that is only as big as the root filesystem and use the rest somewhere >else? >What does the message about /dev/ram mean? can it be removed? Perhaps df is looking in /etc/mtab and finding old entries (especially for /dev/ram as root). It can't read /dev/ram because you made it 0kb in size. I can't see why it can't read /dev/hd6. Look at the contents of /etc/mtab to see if it is consistent with you're current setup. You really should initialise it every time you boot. >Special question for Earl: will shoelace cure all of this? :-> Special answer for Greg: No --- but you'll find your machine easier to boot. > I do >intend to get it running soon enough. Does that mean another round of questions? :-) Good luck, Earl -- Earl Chew, Dept of Computer Science, Monash University, Australia 3168 EMAIL: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au PHONE: 03 5655778 FAX: 03 5655146 ----------------------------------------------------------------------