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On advice from a
friendly user (Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>) I
opened a second console (funny how one forgets about the old debugging
techniques in these GUI dominated days and working so much with MS
Windows as well), and run dmesg. Also did the same on another of my
notebooks where everything worked smoothly. On the problematic machine the HD and its partitions are detected correctly, but the log ends with a lot of error messages somethng like: devfs_register( ... ): could not append to parent - err: -17 Looking closer the only difference I could see was that the CD drive showed up as hdb (i.e. attached to the same ide ide0) while on the other notebook they are attached to separate ide interfaces id0 and ide1 respectively. Hope this help to eliminate the problem Joe Németh |