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 1Oe8AB-0005zm-B5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:03:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B34BE0C13 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:03:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f53.google.com (mail-qw0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61332E09CC for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:46:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwj8 with SMTP id 8so332195qwj.40 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:46:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=ybtiXEkJyWTeVMlowA2Xj0Kfr/WUHlre0V31OD5WMa4=; b=xpx56pt3M0BnQrMTcab6/X/Hb+WuHZgyJZJV6mvWW47Zut//N7jGESWHvrin4zlR0T pQfhCFnejeByaCAPMDu8in3k14kUMRTvGYznMKVB9CS/q/eazM31N+7+fCNgAY1jklAv iCayTiyDzHxcSqt6B8fFgFzZAAn3u90A9kbPA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=HQ4gRSiGBLKSi20EgKLeYxV1YMBIMmzrWmr9e1kkr0mQz0Dn/AcVGUDdexr0iI+vq3 qKi4fOyP9AscvSeq5dttLZ4FnQKx6TSfs474EU/5/ulWMgMMalybhY4pp7mkz9LgEjxS WKLjjl8rVFImbOghBZdNfBKYDETfxLlO4Qpk8= 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 Received: by 10.224.110.193 with SMTP id o1mr8884929qap.298.1280328368047; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:46:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.181.82 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:46:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C503E4E.3070406@gmail.com> References: <4C4B45B2.4000508@konstantinhansen.de> <201007250949.17739.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4C4BF359.4020404@gmail.com> <201007251457.24446.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4C4FEF52.4060702@konstantinhansen.de> <4C503665.5050007@gmail.com> <4C503E4E.3070406@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:46:07 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: e6b5b61a-365c-4a34-9313-4e6e9785469b X-Archives-Hash: e2f3ea6404855dbed2758accfb54b083 On 28 July 2010 15:27, Bill Longman wrote: > On 07/28/2010 07:04 AM, Mick wrote: >> On 28 July 2010 14:53, Bill Longman wrote: >>> On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: >>>> On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH wrote: >>>> >>>>> I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not >>>>> change anything. >>>>> Also I changed /etc/fstab . Now I have 0 0 for every partition. The pc >>>>> boots fine now. I can use it but ... There is no /dev/hd* . Running >>>>> mount /boot I get the answer /dev/hda1 does not exist. Also there is no >>>>> /dev/sd* >>>>> >>>>> Any ideas? >>>> >>>> KH, if you have changed the kernel to use libATA (i.e. the newer >>>> SATA/PATA options) then you need to update your fstab from /dev/hdaX >>>> to /dev/sdaX and change your grub.conf accordingly. >>> >>> But he doesn't even have those devices, so this will not do him any good >>> until we know how the kernel is configured (or not) and get the devices >>> back. >> >> I am not sure that he does not have those devices ... I don't know if >> the error message is returned from grub or from the OS. >> >> It could be that the kernel stanza is wrongly pointing to /dev/hda, >> and, or fstab is not correct. > > He says the "pc boots fine now" and he "can use it" and he goes on to > say that he has "no /dev/hd*" or "/dev/sd*" devices, so I have to > believe he's got a running system. Hmm ... he'll have to be able to hang his OS off some fs or other if it is indeed working. Unless he's running some clever ramdisk, then I would not reach the conclusion that he has a working OS. > Not having any /dev/hd* files would > support the error trying to mount /boot. Trying to fix /etc/fstab first > is not the way to attack his problem given the information we have now. Perhaps he passed the correct path to his grub and the boot sequence fails when it tries to find the devices listed in fstab, so the OS never completes booting. Either way, hopefully the OP will shed some light to this rather than us assuming more or less what might actually be the case. -- Regards, Mick