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Re: hde vs hda drive designation

My problem is that the precompiled kernels recognize it as hde (especially during installation and bootable floppy creation). It's when I use a custom-compiled kernel that it sees it as hda, and panics because it can't find the partition.
What I need is some way to get my hard drive mapped to /dev/hda during installation, rather than to /dev/hde. 

Taren

diego wrote:


This happened to me in the past... I think what happend in my case was:

I changed the IDE from being a module to be *IN* the kernel, so in the
first situation the extra raid IDE was detected *AFTER* initrd, so hda
was already assigned when detected the extra IDE. And, in the later, was
recognized at the very beggining, so it was possible for it to be hda...

I preferred it be compiled *IN* the kernel, so I did a remap of the
drives in grub menu.

Hope this helps.




El mar, 18-01-2005 a las 18:48 -0600, Taren escribió:
Alvin Oga wrote: 
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Taren wrote:
I have a situation where, when I installed Debian Sarge, my hd was recognized as 'hde' (as opposed to hda).
Everything works fine, as long as I boot from the original kernel from the installation media. 
the kernel has an option "boot from pci" ( /dev/hde ) card first

The kernel I boot successfully from (2.2.20, which is the original
kernel set up during installation) has no problem recognizing /dev/hde
as the device on which my  hard drive is located.

The problem is that when I use a customized kernel, it is seeing the
hard drive as /dev/hda, and panics.

I have an ASUS A7V8X-LA motherboard (the specs can be found here:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&dest_page=product&product=407672&dlc=en&docname=c00069442 ), which has onboard UDMA IDE connectors, which are being used for my hard drive (there is only one).

I need to find a way to have my original kernel (I recognize that I
may have to reinstall from scratch) see the hard drive as
being /dev/hda, instead of /dev/hde.

I think there may be UDMA floppy images somewhere which address this
issue, but I've not been able to find them.
However, when I boot from a kernel compiled on my system, the kernel panics, saying that I need to 'append a correct "root=" boot option'.
lilo: root=/dev/hda1 -- or -- lilo: root=/dev/hde1
Under the compiled kernel (2.6.10), my hd is recognized as 'hda', instead of hde, now. 
not possible ?? or its broken ..

i assume your "hde" is plugged into a pci card and NOT the motherboard

My "hde" is plugged directly into the motherboard's UDMA port.

I doubt anything's broken.  This is a brand new system, barely a month
old, and I've had no indication that anything is wrong, other than
that precompiled kernels recognize my hd as /dev/hde instead
of /dev/hda.
If I try changing lilo.conf (that's the boot loader I'm using) to reflect the 'new' hd designation of hda, but I am unable to run lilo, as it can't find the disk. 
yup... its doing exactly what yu told it ..  but its not what you wanted
If anyone has a suggestion on how to get around this, I would appreciate their sharing the information.
yo'd need to give more info - do you have a pci based disk controller 
	- youwill need to enable the kernel option to boot off hde
	- some motherboards do not support booting from hde

if you have dvd, cdrom .. put those on hde
	- and if it doesn't boot from cd.. you have your answer

c ya
alvin
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