I am new to Debian and kernel 2.6 so
please accept my apologies for what is most likely ignorance on my part. I have o ASUS A7V (circa 2000) MB w/ 1GHz AMD
Athlon. BIOS updated to v. 1011. o SEAGATE SCSI drive and ADAPTEC SCSI
controller card o WD 250GB drive connected to the as the
IDE Primary (Master) o PLEXTOR DVD-RW on the IDE Secondary
(Master) o generic CD-ROM on the IDE Secondary
(Slave) o All devices are successfully recognized
during base-config installation. o All OS components are installed onto
the SCSI (sda). o The WD is partitioned and mounted on
/tmp, /opt, /usr/local, and /home After the entire Desktop installation is
complete, with no errors, the machine is rebooted. During the bootup all the
drives are recognized (at least it looks that way in the dmesg), however when
the attempt to mount the /dev/hda{1-4} is made, I see /dev/hda1 (2,3,4) "File
not found" and bootup stops. I enter the root pwd, and execut the
following: # ls /dev // There is no
hda, however sda, hdc, hdd are there # cd /dev # MAKEDEV hda // Why are these
devices created in /.dev ?? # mv /.dev/hda* . # mount -a // all of the hda
partitions successfully mount # exit At this point the bootup continues and
everything is peachy from here on out. I did not have this issue with the
previous installation (RH AS30, 2.4.x). I have convinced myself that this has to
be a minor configuration issue, so if you've got some insight, please drop me a
line. Thanks for reading! Gordon Jackson gjackson@borland.com |