Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update

[Ernie Schroder]

On Saturday 28 January 2006 09:15, a tiny voice compelled Fredrik Lundgren to 
write:
> Thanks for the advice,
>
> To the best of my knoledge Kernel 2.6.15.1 was downloaded and installed.
> I haven't made any change with respect to devfs or udev. How should i
> make the migration? And I haven't used etc-update. What should I start
> with?
>

d'loading and emerging a new kernel version is not "installing" a new kernel. 
You would have had to compile the kernel with genkernel or # make menuconfig
Find your running kernel version with:
$ uname -a

Did you run etc-update after your updates? 

> Again thanks from Fredrik
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
> To: <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 2:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after
> update
>
> > On 1/28/06, Fredrik Lundgren <fredrik.bg.lundgren@××××××××.net> wrote:
> >> and all appeared to go well (lots of updates) but when I rebooted i
> >> got
> >> ----
> >> * checking root filesystem ...
> >> Failed to open the device '/dev/hda2': No such file or directory
> >> * Filesystem couldn't be fixed: (Give root password for maintenance
> >>     (or Control D to continue):_
> >
> > Did you update the kernel version?  Are you still using devfs?  If so,
> > devfs has been removed from current kernels and you need to migrate to
> > udev.
> >
> > Also, be sure to run etc-update, and fixup your configuration files in
> > /etc/conf.d.  Lots of stuff moved from /etc/rc.conf to /etc/conf.d/
> > files in the last 6 months, so you may have some issue there.
> > Particularly there were changes in baselayout that decide whether to
> > startup devfs or udev.
> >
> > -Richard
> >
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Regards, Ernie
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