Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

[Hung Dang <hungptit@gmail.com>]

On 02/19/10 04:43, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 00:49 -0500, 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.
>>     
> The first thing that jumps to my mind is you have an older initrd that
> has your HD drivers in it (such as ATA), but the newer kernel you've
> probably just built (is that what you mean by "a bit of an update"?)
> doesn't.
>
> Check for an initrd, and tell us what "a bit of an update" means :)  You
> could also compare config files between your rescue CD and your system,
> if you can find it!
>
> HTH,
>   
You could see your HDD because the boot CD have enabled all drivers.
Could you double check if you have configured the kernel for your HDD
correctly?

Hung