On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 06:15:12PM +0000, Chris Davies wrote: > Jukka Salmi <j+debian@2008.salmi.ch> wrote: > > I just installed Debian 4.0r5 on a i386 systems (Dell PowerEdge 2950). > > > Begin: Waiting for root file system... ... > > sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb > > > At this point the system hanged for some minutes, until > > ALERT! /dev/sdb3 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! > > was output and the BusyBox shell was executed. > > > But indeed there is no /dev/sdb; there's only one (logical) disk > > present, /dev/sda. > > > I've also come across this, and it seems only to affect DELL 2950s. I've > not logged a bug because I couldn't work out /where/ (i.e. which package) > I should log it against. > > You need to boot a Rescue CD [*] and change all occurrences of sdb to > sda in the files /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab. (At least, that's > what my memory suggests as I don't have my notes to hand.) maybe the best thing to do is change to using labels or UUID's ? > > Chris > > [*] Try http://www.sysresccd.org/ if you need a good Resuce CD > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- "I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace." - George W. Bush 10/23/2000 Des Moines, IA
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