How to create entries for hard disk partitions in /dev?

[saikee]

Thanks everybody for suggestions(Davno), directions(Icarus), explanation(bwkaz) and the exact script from Exodus2001

All excellent stuff! Exactly the ticket as shown below

bash-3.00# chmod 755 morehda
bash-3.00# lilo -b /dev/hda51
Ignoring entry 'boot'
/proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found
Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
/proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found
Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
Incompatible libdevmapper 1.01.01 (2005-03-29)(compat) and kernel driver
Fatal: raid_setup: stat("/dev/hda51")
bash-3.00# bash morehda
bash-3.00# lilo -b /dev/hda51
Ignoring entry 'boot'
/proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found
Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
/proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found
Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
Incompatible libdevmapper 1.01.01 (2005-03-29)(compat) and kernel driver
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
    Name change: '/dev/hda21' -> '/tmp/dev.0'
Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (3, 21) is missing.
Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (3, 22) is missing.
Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (3, 23) is missing.
Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (3, 24) is missing.
Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (22, 21) is missing.
Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (22, 22) is missing.
Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (22, 23) is missing.
Warning: '/dev' directory structure is incomplete; device (22, 24) is missing.
Added scilinux *
Added single-user
bash-3.00#

I cut and paste Exodus2001 script as "morehda" without any alteration. The above show Lilo didn't compile before the issue of "morehda" and it did after.