Re: /dev/sd* disappeared from userspace
On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 01:31 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> If you are just now getting the grub 2 upgrade in Sid then it has been
> a *long* time since you last upgraded. At least ten months? Since
> before last February? (I can't quite remember when it went through a
> brief search didn't refresh my memory enough to be sure.)
I don't think it was that long. I remember GRUB 2 coming in, but I stuck
with the legacy package at the time.
> What are the versions of your kernel and udev packages? I know you
> say they are fine but inquiring minds want to know the version numbers
> so that we can know this for ourselves. :-)
Kernel is 2.6.26.4, udev is 164-3.
> What does this say?
>
> cat /proc/partitions
It reports the partitions properly.
> Note that the current udev requires a kernel that is 2.6.28 or newer.
> This is making upgrades from Lenny to Squeeze especially painful this
> release cycle.
That could certainly be an issue. I suppose there must be some good
technical reason that dep wouldn't be tracked by apt. It's going to be
tricky doing a kernel upgrade now, since my /boot directory containing
the kernels and grub info is no longer accessible. That's going to
confuse the heck out of apt and the rest of the usual boot/kernel
configuration tools. I could d/l the current kernel package and manually
extract the kernel and modules from it, but I'm not sure how best to go
about booting to them. Suppose I remove and reinstall GRUB and my
current kernel (essentially recreating my old /boot partition on the
root partition)... is GRUB going to freak out with the device nodes
inaccessible? Alternatively, could I just mknod the appropriate nodes
for the moment in order to get the kernel sorted out? Other suggestions?
Thanks,
Todd
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