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 1NiewS-00089U-MA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:19:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DC95E087A; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:18:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f216.google.com (mail-gx0-f216.google.com [209.85.217.216]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0737EE087A for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:18:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk8 with SMTP id 8so186954gxk.9 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:18:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TZzar3PQ7acofTGDwqflwKyFcv8x9z/rFZfL1O/jXoA=; b=XLVbKmycSVd0S7CNjmIYJwLMm2LGtAGEV8+dd3wy5bbbZS87shtiFhpYFrKcsBsv+Z yS1F+QFrY3V/z/4UWY8UGWjpZ44uRFfbKt5hSPT595WU/KiwR5JAWrX9A8GZl65qAlW7 5K5X+M9siqPsVfSQQg1/JpX8uohks68U8n/p0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AKZylPZdUKXzXii6IHTxW5GmNwVShF4jQy5Dws/BvSRKq2AYCwfgiY8LxahxkaaPW5 4zxLtF0HGmRkhoxxCbXTZdGztHfeL7jR/aoVnbaOxwb1p3OYjGsxYx3dbzzNEa6Izr60 Z6QvzANUV7wogEkwFxueOoCsN8/npeKxqtqsY= Received: by 10.90.133.11 with SMTP id g11mr2694870agd.121.1266632302436; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:18:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.100? (liverpool.NMSU.Edu [128.123.84.83]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 20sm355701ywh.18.2010.02.19.18.18.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:18:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B7F4676.9050903@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:18:30 -0700 From: Hung Dang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100206 Thunderbird/3.0.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist... References: <061101cab127$58ca1500$6400a8c0@quan> <1266579838.3445.28.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1266579838.3445.28.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 508b88e3-4ae4-442f-a547-c070c5ac5938 X-Archives-Hash: e247e0648025411d36ac9ca9b2ffdd39 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