On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:32:29PM -0700, Lares Moreau wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:20 -0500, Michael George wrote:
> > I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot
> > time.
> >
> > I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create
> > the device) and is noted as "hda" in the boot messages.
> >
> > However, /dev/hda doesn't exist. That's a problem. /dev/hda?* did
> > exist, though...
> >
> > I tried turning off the DEV_TARBALL option in /etc/conf.d/rc and
> > rebooting. Then there was no /dev/hda* at all. I have created
> > /dev/hda* with MAKEDEV and turned the DEV_TABALL back on, but I don't
> > know that that will make any difference, becasue I've created /dev/hda
> > before and rebooted with the TARBALL option on and /dev/hda still wan't
> > there.
> >
> > I also had someone say that they had to manually modprobe ide_cdrom one
> > time, but I didn't see that happen this time (maybe someone else did
> > it...).
> >
> > I re-emerged udev, in case a config was corrupted, but no config files
> > changed and /dev/hda was still not there after reboot.
> >
> > I suspect it's a udev configuration issue, but since I didn't change
> > anything, I'm not sure how it would've broken.
>
> COuld you give more detail about your situation.
> Is this a new install on this system? ie. liveCD
> Is this an upgrade of the kernel?
> or was this just the addition of the DVD-R?
I just noticed the problem, so I'm not sure when it started (I don't use
the drive on it much).
It turns out that we only need to load the ide_cd module at boot time
and the dev will show up. It will show up whenever we load the module,
but it was causing confusion by not being there after a reboot.
Someday I need to read up on udev, hal, hot- and cold-plug and how they
all interact with the system nowadays...
Thanks for your reply. My apologies for eating bandwidth.
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