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 1Oe7Fo-0000GI-JR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:05:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC728E0C2C; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:04:34 +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 8E962E0C2C for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:04:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwj8 with SMTP id 8so309000qwj.40 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:04:34 -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=q2KkoFSaNxdJbvQbcfI5a2GxOm3mn2Pkeq4Wa/1dbIE=; b=o2ghaqtTrbGKCIvLB48eEXmnOcinWsvtmKxMLqV5+8d/3SUVqRHm0612HKxf111/sX B8sUD6eqMAHHvayGmJkA1JO5E1OIgXGVYgwldHs5xcDssZbHEDyPYB26C5FBCeD7hI1v FXeC/sIA49tnOO6Xq0FVI3hPd0i4OVel8cNes= 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=YShnHhTayheQ7dt4sa9aK4MitGcjlfQU76rduD5R6hF3jVpuWsWg3YTywHIm5PXZ0i fISFQFmVn+wwAP0v1OdQ2Df+NbIH/zFjL1JJ6PZXesLy5yPw86e6zTPRfJVIdjKnWrJ5 6kvo5efj5tL5BCG2SE80sVTEZRzUu2iE2uwGk= 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 10.224.96.144 with SMTP id h16mr8640253qan.372.1280325873571; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:04:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.181.82 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:04:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C503665.5050007@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> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:04:33 +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: 2f5de060-ad52-4533-86dc-879a5471b158 X-Archives-Hash: b31efc2db89adcc2ad766b93c4a74796 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. -- Regards, Mick