Todd Pytel wrote: > I recently began updating my desktop, a Sid install which I only update > infrequently - the last update was a few months ago. As I usually do in > this situation, I started by pulling down the various non-X/GNOME > libraries and basic admin, devel, and text tools. Before too long, I did > a reboot to test the GRUB 2 upgrade, 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 wentt through a brief search didn't refresh my memory enough to be sure.) 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. :-) > and noticed that /dev/sda - my system disk - is no longer listed in > /dev. Oops. What does this say? cat /proc/partitions Hopefully you will see something that looks like a filesystem partition in the outout. > My only thought was that this should be udev/hal related, so I finished > the upgrade for those packages, but to no effect. Is there somewhere > else I should look? Again, it's not a kernel support problem - the > kernel is untouched from before, and sda is detected properly in dmesg. > The disk just isn't showing up in userspace. 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. Bob
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