/proc/partitions?

[mcuddy]

I'm installing gentoo on my Athalon 1 GHz computer dual booting with windows and dos. I couldn't understand the grub setup, so I installed lilo, which worked fine except for a warning whenever I run lilo after altering the lilo.conf file

Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not exist, disk scan bypassed

should I have a file /proc/partitions? what should it contain?

[chammer]

I'm installing gentoo on my Athalon 1 GHz computer dual booting with windows and dos. I couldn't understand the grub setup, so I installed lilo, which worked fine except for a warning whenever I run lilo after altering the lilo.conf file

Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not exist, disk scan bypassed

should I have a file /proc/partitions? what should it contain?

so long as you have /proc setup properly (ie: created from reading the installation manual from gentoo.org), it should contain something like this:

mercury: ~> cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

3 0 4209408 hda
3 1 497983 hda1
3 2 96390 hda2
3 3 3614625 hda3
22 0 4209408 hdc
22 1 498078 hdc1
22 2 97524 hdc2
22 3 3613774 hdc3

hda and hdc are hard drives on this particular machine.