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On 16/09/10 08:18, Al wrote: |
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>> As to the second suggestion, there is *no* /dev/sda1 (the partition in |
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>> question). It just doesn't exist for some reason. However, fstab shows |
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>> that it's mounted, and /sys/block has entries for the disk, so I'm not |
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>> sure why it's dropped out. I'm guessing it has something to do with |
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>> udevd, or uevents? Because shortly before that, I tell it to find the |
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>> root partition at /dev/sda1, and it starts to boot, but then it loses it. |
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> What is that in concrete, it starts? What do you see, hear, smell? |
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> Al |
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I'm not sure what you're asking. Can you elaborate as to what you're |
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asking? |
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As I'm in an office, there is no concrete nearby for anything to be in. |
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I see my monitor, I hear my mp3's playing, and I smell my peppermint |
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tea. But I'm pretty sure that's not what you're asking me. :-P |
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If you're asking what, specifically, I mean by "it starts", my previous |
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posts show how far into the boot process it gets. If I specify by |
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/dev/sda1, eventually it gets to checking that partition for errors, but |
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fails to find the partition. If I specify by LABEL, then it tells me it |
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can't find the label a bit earlier in the boot process, and asks where |
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it can find the root partition. When I tell it /dev/sda1, it continues |
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to boot, only to stop again at fsck'ing the partition. If I put in the |
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root password for maintenance and have a look, there is no /dev/sda or |
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/dev/sda1 in /dev (nor /dev/hd?, nor /dev/sr?). But a "mount" command |
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shows /dev/sda1 mounted at /. And /sys/block has sda and under that, |
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sda1. So it's like it sees it, but then it doesn't. |
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Following the sugegstion from YoYo Siska, I've had a look at the various |
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options I can pass to genkernel (I had followed the handbook previously, |
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and hadn't realized there were options I could pass), and am currently |
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rebuilding it with the following command: "genkernel --install --slowusb |
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--disklabel all". YoYo pointed out that there was a --disklabel option |
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to pass that'd add disk label support to the kernel, and I noticed the |
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--slowusb option that, from my research, sounds like it may have |
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something to do with my problem. Will let you know after I try that |
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what the results are. |
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Jake Moe |
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