On 19 February 2010 14:49, James Homuth <ja...@the-jdh.com> wrote: > I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after > reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. > But, booting to > an install CD I burned for diagnostic purposes, it sees them just fine.
Kernel versions of native install and Live CD? I susupect Hung's suggestion may be the answer. AFAIK grub is boot strapping before the kernel, and so the devices can be named different from BIOS and the install. I had a similar strange problem where I needed symlinks for hd devices to sd devices or vice versa with an older kernel and newer hardware (and I think some BIOS tweaks). [I'm not recommending people to symlink devices, since that seems like a bad way to do things, but I'm willing to be stupid for myself in cases of need.] ~daid
