Re: udev

[John L Fjellstad <john-debian@fjellstad.org>]

Glenn English <ghe@slsware.com> writes:

> 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.
>
> ...
>
> 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?

Are you sure that the 2.6.8 kernel has the ide modules loaded?

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