Re: challenge s boots linux

[Alex deVries <adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca>]

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Rob Lembree wrote:
> hmm, I had the same problem on my Indy.  I found that 
> IRIX had stripped the major and minor numbers from the
> device files in the tar distribution -- the answer was to
> untar using Linux, not IRIX (gtar doesn't help), or to 
> manually recreate the dev files.
> Try that, and I bet it fixes it.

You can also just recreate the block devices from within Irix.

- Alex