On 28 July 2010 14:53, Bill Longman <bill.long...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: >> On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH <gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de> wrote: >> >>> I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not >>> change anything. >>> Also I changed /etc/fstab . Now I have 0 0 for every partition. The pc >>> boots fine now. I can use it but ... There is no /dev/hd* . Running >>> mount /boot I get the answer /dev/hda1 does not exist. Also there is no >>> /dev/sd* >>> >>> Any ideas? >> >> KH, if you have changed the kernel to use libATA (i.e. the newer >> SATA/PATA options) then you need to update your fstab from /dev/hdaX >> to /dev/sdaX and change your grub.conf accordingly. > > But he doesn't even have those devices, so this will not do him any good > until we know how the kernel is configured (or not) and get the devices > back.
I am not sure that he does not have those devices ... I don't know if the error message is returned from grub or from the OS. It could be that the kernel stanza is wrongly pointing to /dev/hda, and, or fstab is not correct. -- Regards, Mick