Re: mindi-0.86 fails at Creating /dev/boot_device

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:31:21PM +0200 or thereabouts, Maurice Janssen wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 29, 2003 at 07:39:36 -0700, Joshua Oreman wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:31:14AM +0200 or thereabouts, Maurice Janssen wrote:
> >> Assembling dependency files.......................................Backing up /dev/md's MBR
> >> Creating /dev/boot_device (/dev/md)
> >> cp: cannot stat `/dev/md': No such file or directory
> >> Fatal error. Unable to create /dev/boot_device on ramdisk
> >
> >Use -f /dev/md0 in your call to Mondo.
> 
> Same result.  Logfile is identical (apart from obvious differences in
> names of tmp and scratch directories and the list of command line
> switches) except for this line:
> resolved /dev/md0 to /dev/md0
> (only when -f /dev/md0 is used)
> 
> BTW: the man page says
>        -f device    Specify the drive on which your  Master  Boot
>                     Record  lives.  Usually,  this  is discovered
>                     automatically.
> Which should be /dev/sda in my case.  However, this also fails at the
> same point.
> 
> Logfiles are attached.

Hmm. This looks like a bug.

Could you please try the unstable 1.74 and see if that fixes it?

-- Josh

> 
> Maurice

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