On Friday 19 February 2010 09:07:59 James Homuth wrote: > _____ > > From: Hung Dang [mailto:hungp...@gmail.com] > Sent: February 19, 2010 1:55 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist... > > > On 02/18/10 22:49, James Homuth wrote: > > I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after > reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I currently have > 0 swap space, and according to stat, ls etc, they don't exist. But, > booting to an install CD I burned for diagnostic purposes, it sees them > just fine. Also, and this is the strange part. It boots no problem, so the > OS is able to mount at least /dev/hda3, even though from the command line > I'm not seeing it. I'm probably missing something completely dead obvious > (it's after midnight here and all), and Google's turning up nothing, so if > someone could kindly slap me in the face with it, that'd be appreciated. > Thanks either way for whatever help comes my way. > > > How about /dev/sda1,2,3? > > There is no /dev/sda*, either. First thing I checked. >
As your root-filesystem does appear to be mounted, can you give use the result of the "mount" command to see how it identifies the root-filesystem? I have seen harddrive naming schemes change between kernel versions. Eg. hda might end up being hdb or hdc,... (same with sd.....) Alternatively, to avoid this, you could use drive-labels and configure /etc/fstab with these labels rather then the drive-items. Can you also show us the dmesg-output to see if the drives are actually identified? If "udev" is not running correctly, the device-nodes might not be created automatically. -- Joost
