[coLinux-users] colinux-0.6.2 alias problem

[Ian A. <ia...@ab...>]

Hi,

I'm trying to use the alias feature in the colinux-20040710 snapshot 
so I can dual-boot my Gentoo natively or from Windows/coLinux 
without messing up my /etc/fstab.

I have a few entries in my colinux config file as follows:

     <!-- Gentoo root -->
     <block_device index="0" path="\Device\HarddiskVolume9" 
alias="hdc10" enabled="true" />
     <!-- Swap -->
     <block_device index="1" path="\Device\HarddiskVolume6" 
alias="hdc7" enabled="true" />
     <!-- Gentoo boot -->
     <block_device index="2" path="\Device\HarddiskVolume8" 
alias="hdc9" enabled="true" />
     <!-- bootparams allows you to pass kernel boot parameters -->
     <bootparams>root=/dev/hdc10</bootparams>

Gentoo seems to boot okay until it tries to check/remount the root 
device, when it fails to open /dev/hdc10.  If I drop to a shell and 
look in the /dev directory, I see no /dev/hdc10, /dev/hdc7 or 
/dev/hdc9, but I do see /dev/hdc/10, /dev/hdc/7 and /dev/hdc/9.

(I actually have a couple more aliased partitions, but I've omitted 
the details for clarity.)

Similarly, instead of /dev/cobd0, etc., I have /dev/cobd/0, etc.

During boot, the cobd driver claims to create the aliases okay:

cobd: loaded (max 32 devices)
alias for cobd0 is hdc10
cobd alias cobd0 -> hdc10 created
alias for cobd1 is hdc7
cobd alias cobd1 -> hdc7 created
alias for cobd2 is hdc9
cobd alias cobd2 -> hdc9 created

Any idea what's going on here?  Something to do with devfs and 
devfsd, perhaps?  (I have a devfs filesystem mounted on /dev and 
devfsd running, using /dev.)  I don't have similar trouble booting 
natively with a 2.6 kernel.

Ian.