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On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:20 -0500, Michael George wrote: |
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> I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot |
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> time. |
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> |
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> I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create |
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> the device) and is noted as "hda" in the boot messages. |
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> However, /dev/hda doesn't exist. That's a problem. /dev/hda?* did |
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> exist, though... |
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> I tried turning off the DEV_TARBALL option in /etc/conf.d/rc and |
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> rebooting. Then there was no /dev/hda* at all. I have created |
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> /dev/hda* with MAKEDEV and turned the DEV_TABALL back on, but I don't |
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> know that that will make any difference, becasue I've created /dev/hda |
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> before and rebooted with the TARBALL option on and /dev/hda still wan't |
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> there. |
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> I also had someone say that they had to manually modprobe ide_cdrom one |
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> time, but I didn't see that happen this time (maybe someone else did |
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> it...). |
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> I re-emerged udev, in case a config was corrupted, but no config files |
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> changed and /dev/hda was still not there after reboot. |
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> I suspect it's a udev configuration issue, but since I didn't change |
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> anything, I'm not sure how it would've broken. |
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COuld you give more detail about your situation. |
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Is this a new install on this system? ie. liveCD |
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Is this an upgrade of the kernel? |
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or was this just the addition of the DVD-R? |
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