From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QuC3A-0005NU-Tq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:31:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 621FD21C124; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:30:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (unknown [77.75.108.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3B6321C0A5 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:29:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD806DED73 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:29:49 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mLObB8pH9RGN for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:33:15 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84651DED46 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:29:49 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:29:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20cf3040ea1c3470b704aacc78ba@google.com> <20cf305e2551c4d75e04aacc9602@google.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201108190029.48926.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 0bff8c0e5278e9ff77277980b2cd718f On Thursday 18 August 2011 20:42:30 Michael Mol wrote: > Don't forget to check your BIOS. You might also consider enabling > "SCSI-generic (disk)", which would catch ide-emulated disks and put a > scsi interface around them in the kernel. But it might well shove a generic driver in before the specific one has a chance. The docs warn of this. > Finally, check that it's coming up as "/dev/sda" and not something > like "/dev/sdb". Good advice (if I may presume). BIOSes often have weird detection orders: I'm still not sure I've got the right optical drive order on my superannuated workstation. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23