Bug 57808 – /sbin/lilo response "Fatal: raid-setup: stat("/dev/hda21")

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description imagination 2004-07-20 22:30:08 UTC]

gentoo-2004.1 universal:
When configuring the Lilo boot loader with 
boot=/dev/hda21 in lilo.conf /sbin/lilo
responds 
Fatal: raid-setup: stat("/dev/hda21")
Previous versions of Gentoo did not have this problem
(e.g. Gentoo1.4) with the same S-ATA hard disk.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Configure Bootloader
2./sbin/lilo
3.

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-07-21 05:31:40 UTC]

hda21? Is that a typo?

[Comment 2 imagination 2004-07-21 06:40:17 UTC]

No typo, but the 21st partition of hda.
('mount /dev/hda21 /mnt/gentoo/boot' for installation)

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-07-21 07:12:46 UTC]

You do know that by default, MAKEDEV only does 20 device nodes for hda, right?

You would have to manually makenod the 21st one, I believe.

[Comment 4 imagination 2004-07-21 07:29:29 UTC]

My goodness - I did NOT know that. Thank you
very much for the hint. So forget about this
"bug". Nevertheless, it might help somebody
else unproficient. 

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-07-21 09:43:34 UTC]

No problem at all... I'm just glad we came up with a quick and easy resolution.

[Comment 6 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 11:24:22 UTC]

Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.