Can't mount drives after installing kernel 2.4.1

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Author: Steven M. Klass
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Subject: Can't mount drives after installing kernel 2.4.1
Was DevFS compiled into it? This means that /dev/sda4/zip is no longer
valid. I am not sure what the new major minor number is though. Check out
the following for info..

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html


At 06:11 PM 2/2/01 -0700, Julian M Catchen wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Last night I comiled and installed the new kernel, 2.4.1. Everything works
>great except...I can no longer mount my zip drive or my CD-RW. I get this
>message:
>
> >mount /dev/sda4 /zip
>mount; /dev/sda4 has wrong major or minor number
>
>I am using SCSI emulation in order to get my burner to work properly. I
>have not enabled IDE CDRom support. I have enabled scsi emulation as well
>as scsi generic support in the kernel. Usually, I can mount my burner
>under /dev/sr0 and my zip under /dev/sda4.
>
>Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
>
>Thanks,
>
>julian
>
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