Re: create recoveredge media fails

From: Bob Bailin (72027.3605_at_compuserve.com)
Date: 02/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:42:50 GMT

"peri g" <briard@kos.net> wrote in message news:4219FFA7.2D85@kos.net...
> peri g wrote:
>>
>> create recoverEDGE media will not work
>>
>> I tried it on a
>>
>> - 1.44MB floppy
>> - dvd
>>
>> On both attempts I get the same error:
>>
>> Device name not found for 1-175
>> Cannot resolve drive number -- will continue
>> Device name not found for 1-128
>> Could not run re2
>>
>> This was using microlite 2.01.01:3
>> and sco 5.0.6
>>
>
> I have heard from Microlite support and they said
>
> ""
>> Your hard drives are not set up using the usual device names.
>> Are you using any kind of software Volume manager, including ReliantHA?
> ""
>
> ( I have emailed them back ) but in the meantime ,,,
>
> I am using sco 5.0.6, can someone tell me what
> volume manager is for 5.0.6 ? I also don't understand why the floppy
> won't work, because it is /dev/fd0, how can that not be
> usual device names ?
>
> my systems are setup like this:
>
> / /dev/root
> /stand /dev/boot
> /u /dev/u
> /u1 /dev/u1
> /u2 /dev/u2
>
> I did not realize that you needed to follow some
> "usual device names" for microlite to create recoverEDGE media
>
> I have several computers and they basically all
> use this same device name setup
>
> Can anyone shed light on this ? So when I finally load
> 5.0.7 , I can correct this matter.

You did not say at what step during RE media creation
the process failed. Was it during program startup, during
the boot filesystem generation, during root fs generation,
or what?

Bob