Re: [cobalt-users] still can't figure out how to recreate /dev/hdb1 and hdb2 is acting oddly

[jale@xxxxxxxxxx]

> > 1) I lost my entry /dev/hdb1 - which is the 1st partition on my 2nd hard
> > drive. Without this entry I can't dd my /dev/hda1 to my backup drive.  I
> > can't dd and I obviously can't mount it. The /dev entries has a 'b' in the
> > first position of the permissions, not sure what that means (I assume it
> > means block-device). I cannot cp another entry to it either.  So I have no
> > way right now to backup my primary partition.
>
>  I still think you deleted the /dev/hdb1 link to the driver.

Yes, I did by accident, somehow. Not sure exactly what happened, but I'm 
pretty sure I did delete it, it did not just do it by itself. I tried to do 
my 4 dd commands in a batch file, and it didn't like something about it ... 
it created a huge file for hda1;  instead of copying it to hdb1 it created 
a file called hdb1.

> > Any ideas on:
> > 1) how do I get my /dev/hdb1 back
>
> I think you screwed up your /dev/ directory when you were having the previous
> problem.
> Maybe a tarball of a good /dev/ directory loaded on top of what you have.
> Stick the disk in another system and see if you can access /dev/hdb1.

I wonder if someone else has a setup like mine, could that tar their /dev 
folder and I can un-tar it ... I do still have my original 13 gig drive 
intact, I wonder if I put it in the system if I'd just be able to copy the 
directory, or something similar to that.

> Does your RaQ3i have two ide connectors or are you running one ide cable
> master / slave?
>
> If you have two ide connectors, strap both drives as Master, that will make
> the second drive hdc, then try and work with it.

No, the Raq3i only has one IDE connector on the board, I use master/slave 
setup.

> All else fails restore the RaQ3i

That would be painful :)

> > 2) why I can't mount /dev/hdb2 which *appears* to work, at least on the dd
> >
> Try    mount -t e2fs /dev/hdb2 /mnt/disk

Here's what I got:
mount: fs type e2fs not supported by kernel

Thanks,
Jale