Are you talking about the partitions, or the physical drives? If the
drive recognition in Linux isn't matching reality, then you've got a
BIOS issue. If its a partition issue, then its a Linux and/or BIOS
problem. Either way, first stop should be in the BIOS to see how the
drives are recognized.
--- burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well here's a fine kettle of fish, Ollie.
>
> I have installed Suse 7.2 Pro over the weekend and have had to
> reshuffle
> harddrives a couple of times to accomodate both Windows and the
> appealing but
> largish Suse install... this is (still) a dual boot system.
>
> Disk 3 was reformatted to EXT2 and not all are being picked up by the
> system
> (I don't think 2 & 3 are). I can edit the fstab file, but how do I
> know which
> drive is actually now which device, when the devices listed are not
> updating,
> not all of them are being listed and the fstab listing no longer
> matches the
> current reality?
>
> Here are the facts:
>
> System Details:
> - ABit BP6 Mainboard
> - Dual Celeron CPUs
> - 512 MB SDRAM
> - Creative Nvidia TNT2 Ultra graphics card
> - Soundblaster Live Value sound card
> - Disk 1, Master on primary EIDE, 9Gb Fat32 Primary for Windows, 10Gb
> for
> Linux with default Suse install partions (boot, swap & /)
> - CDROM, Acer 50x ATAPI = slave on primary EIDE
> - Disk 2, Master on secondary EIDE, 13.2Gb EXT2 for Linux storage
> - Disk 3, Slave on secondary EIDE, 4Gb fat32 Primary for Windows
> storage
> - Disk 4, Master on first ATA66 UDMA channel, 13Gb fat32 split into
> approximately two logical 6Gb drives/partitions.
>
> Following is result of df:
> burns@burns:~ > df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda7 10G 2.9G 7.0G 29% /
> /dev/hda5 23M 2.5M 19M 12% /boot
> shmfs 942M 0 941M 0% /dev/shm
>
> Following is fstab file:
> root@burns:/ > cat etc/fstab
> /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat noauto,user 0 0
> /dev/hdd1 /windows/D vfat noauto,user 0 0
> /dev/hdf1 /windows/E vfat noauto,user 0 0
> /dev/hdf5 /windows/F vfat noauto,user 0 0
> /dev/hda6 swap swap pri=42 0 0
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