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Re: udev



On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 10:33 +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> Glenn English schreef:
> > My system is Sarge with one each SCSI, SATA, IDE (hda), and ATAPI (hdc)
> > disks. I usually boot from the SCSI disk.
> > 
> > When I boot into a 2.6.8 kernel with udev enabled the IDE disk isn't
> > there -- not in /dev or in /sys/block -- and when the boot process tries
> > to mount the local disks, it says it can't read an ext2 superblock on
> > it.
> > 
> > If I boot a 2.6.7 kernel (too early for udev), all is well. When I
> > replace the contents of /etc/init.d/udev with "return 0", all is well.
> > And FWIW, I can boot the IDE disk itself (DeMudi with a 2.4 kernel) with
> > no problems.
> > 
> > Anybody know what might be going on? 
> > 
> > It's as if /sys isn't getting a complete list of all the drives the BIOS
> > can see. But udev can't do that. Can it?
> 
> Maybe the hda device has been renamed to a sd* device? I have seen that 
> before with SATA.

Nope. I just looked -- the SATA drive is an sd, though.

-- 
Glenn English
ghe@slsware.com
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