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