On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:36:50PM +0100, Laurent Riffard wrote: > Le 23.02.2005 21:12, Andrew Morton a ?crit : > >Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>This kernel came up, but my boot script complained about no /dev/hdb3 > >>when trying to mount /var. > >>(I have two IDE disks on the same cable, and an IDE cdrom on another.) > >>They are usually hda, hdb, and hdc. > >> > >>MAKEDEV hdq did not help. Looking at sysfs, it turns out that > >>/dev/hdq1 is at major:3 minor:1025 if I interpret things right. > >>(/dev/hda1 is at 3:1, which is correct.) > >>These numbers did not work with my mknod, it created 7:1 instead. > >>So I didn't get to test this mysterious device. > >> > >>But I assume this is a mistake of some sort, I haven't heard about any > >>change in the IDE numbering coming up? 2.6.1-rc3-mm1 works as expected. > >> > >>It may be interesting to note that my root raid-1 came up fine, > >>consisting of hdq1 and hda1 instead of the usual hdb1 and hda1. > > > > > >I don't know what could be causing that. Please send .config. If you set > >CONFIG_BASE_FULL=n, try setting it to `y'. > > > > this is just a "me too"... > > Here is some few lines from dmesg : > > hdb: cache flushes supported > hdq: hdq1 hdq2 < hdq5 hdq6 hdq7 hdq8 >
Neat. > ~$ ls -l /dev/hd* > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 f?v 23 22:45 /dev/hda > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 f?v 23 22:45 /dev/hda1 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 10 f?v 23 22:45 /dev/hda10 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 2 f?v 23 22:45 /dev/hda2 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 3 f?v 23 22:45 /dev/hda3 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 4 f?v 23 22:45 /dev/hda4 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 5 f?v 23 22:45 /dev/hda5 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 6 f?v 23 22:45 /dev/hda6 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 7 f?v 23 22:45 /dev/hda7 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 8 f?v 23 22:45 /dev/hda8 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 9 f?v 23 22:45 /dev/hda9 > brw-rw---- 1 laurent cdrom 22, 0 f?v 23 22:45 /dev/hdc > brw------- 1 root root 22, 64 f?v 23 22:45 /dev/hdd > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1024 f?v 23 22:45 /dev/hdq Looks like you're using udev. > CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y > CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0 Ok, that's unrelated to the weird IDE numbering then. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
