On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 12:32:59AM +0100, Mathieu Segaud wrote: > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait derni??rement que : > > > 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'. > > I've got the same problem here on my box, udev creates hds and hdu > entries when running 2.6.11-rc4-mm1, whereas it creates correctly hdf > et hdh, on other kernels.
Are these misnamed and misnumbered devices mountable? If not, can you mknod device nodes at the proper major:minor location and have them work? Seems ->disk_name is getting modified between ide_setup() and add_disk() somehow, giving us: hdb: ... hdq: hdq1 hdq2... -- 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/
