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On 02/19/10 04:43, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 00:49 -0500, James Homuth wrote: |
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>> I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and |
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>> after reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I |
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>> currently have 0 swap space, and according to stat, ls etc, they don't |
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>> exist. But, booting to an install CD I burned for diagnostic purposes, |
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>> it sees them just fine. Also, and this is the strange part. It boots |
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>> no problem, so the OS is able to mount at least /dev/hda3, even though |
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>> from the command line I'm not seeing it. I'm probably missing |
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>> something completely dead obvious (it's after midnight here and all), |
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>> and Google's turning up nothing, so if someone could kindly slap me in |
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>> the face with it, that'd be appreciated. Thanks either way for |
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>> whatever help comes my way. |
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> The first thing that jumps to my mind is you have an older initrd that |
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> has your HD drivers in it (such as ATA), but the newer kernel you've |
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> probably just built (is that what you mean by "a bit of an update"?) |
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> doesn't. |
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> Check for an initrd, and tell us what "a bit of an update" means :) You |
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> could also compare config files between your rescue CD and your system, |
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> if you can find it! |
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> HTH, |
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You could see your HDD because the boot CD have enabled all drivers. |
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Could you double check if you have configured the kernel for your HDD |
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correctly? |
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Hung |