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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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> On Saturday 28 November 2009 17:04:10 BRM wrote: |
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> > > You also mention /dev/hda and the context implies it is a physical disk. |
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> > > Unless you have ancient disk hardware and unusual module setup, your |
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> > > disks will be /dev/sda. Do you have references to /dev/dh** in |
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> > > /etc/fstab? That won;t work as udev will not name them that way |
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> > Actually, yes - it is a 2003 Dell D600 with a standard ATA/IDE hard drive. |
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> > So yes - it would be /dev/hda; and yes, udev has been working fine until |
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> > this issue. |
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> For quite some time now IDE drives have been handled below the SCSI subsytem |
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> so you do in fact get a /dev/sda, except when using the old deprectaed IDE |
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> driver that has been around for ages. That one uses /dev/hda, and it's very |
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> unusual these days to find it. |
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> You should check what the kernek you are running is using and what udev calls |
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> those things as it very likely is not the same as what it was before your |
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> kernel & udev upgrade. |
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Okay - booted back over to it to do some checking: |
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- trying to use /dev/sda1 as the root device (kernel command-line) won't work. |
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- exact kernel version: 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 |
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- there are no drives (hda, sda, etc.) listed under /dev - kind of expected since udevd isn't running. |
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I do have sources for linux kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 available, but then I need to be able to write to the read-only fs. |
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Guess I could probably do that using the kernel command-line, no? (Haven't done that before, so I'm not sure what |
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the correct option would be.) |
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> I want to eliminate obvious things before we go looking for exotic things |
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Sounds like a good plan. |
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TIA, |
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Ben |
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