On Thursday 16 March 2006 08:32, Glenn English wrote: > On Wednesday 15 March 2006 15:15, William Humphrey wrote: > > I am using the latest official testing version of debian (kernel > > 2.6.15) on a DL580 G3 with Quad Procs. I used the netinst image. Once > > I installed the program, I have the problem to where is keep dropping > > to a shell and will not boot. It say that it cannot find my hard > > drive partition which is /dev/cciss/c0d01. And on top of that, it > > does not create an /etc/fstab for me to mount it. I have tried > > creating a fstab myself, but once I reboot, it goes away. Has anyone > > had this problem? If so please help! > > Waiting 20 seconds and ctl-d'ing out of the shell works here. > > When mine does that "drop into a shell" trick, I just let it sit for 10 > or 15 seconds. The boot process prints on the screen that it's created > the relevant drive in /dev. And a couple seconds after that, 'ls > /dev/sd*' shows the partitions. And ctl-d climbs out of the shell, and > the boot process finishes. > > What you describe is happening here on 2 machines: a dual Opteron Sun > running smp etch in 32 bit mode and a single P4 homebrew running sid. > Both of them have a SCSI boot drive and a SATA to store big stuff on. > (The servers running sarge are fine.) > > The 2.6.15 kernel and/or the current udev and/or something else I don't > know about are/is bent pretty badly. SATA drives are not SCSI drives. > If the developers want to run them through the SCSI driver, that's > fine. But they could at least call them sdA... so things wouldn't get > confused. > > And whoever's doing that reordering should be put up against the wall. > Or at least the installer should be told about the reordering > algorithm. > > -- > Glenn English > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GPG ID: D0D7FF20
The cciss indicates it is a hardware raid controller, maybe Compaqs 'smart array' -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
