On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 07:50:59PM +1100, David Fisher wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 19:46, Matt Palmer wrote: > > Long shot, but have you had a look at the permissions on /dev/sdb*? > > Not *likely* to be the problem, but if sdb is listed in dmesg > > correctly, then it's about the only thing left, barring hardware > > failure - I've had that problem with a very old and crusty IDE drive > > - BIOS finds it, kernel says "hmm, disk there" (probably foolishly > > trusting the BIOS, methinks) but fdisk says "no cookie for you!". > > Might be a similar thing happening for your SCSI disk. > > Thanks, Matt, will check for that, as unlikely as it seems. > What perplexes me is that tomsrootbt fdisk recognizes it but the fdisk > on the actual machine in single user mode doesn't.
That's what triggered me to a likely permissions problem - tomsrtbt will be 0660 /dev/sd*, while your running system is possibly 0440. - Matt -- Note for spammers: These are your balls. (show two grains of rice) These are your balls after SPEWS. (smash rice with a hammer) Any questions? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
